Re: [tlug] Baby Steps for Command Line Backups

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Jason Hall wrote:
> 
> It can also be run between OS types. I think I used it to keep a set of
> working files synchronized between a windows machine and a linux machine
> at two different locations.

If what you're saying in this message is true, that actually sounds like
the ideal solution for me.  I am using a Windows laptop and Ubuntu on a
Mac G5 (desktop) at work, and have a Windows/Debian dual boot machine at
home now, and I'd like to have all the files in the same places on all
the machines.  Right now I'm doing it all manually, transfering files
from machine to machine with my iPod and flash memory.  It's becoming
time-consuming.  I used to keep all my work stuff on one machine, so
this wasn't necessary, but unfortunately, I am becoming more and more
dependent on the Windows laptop.  

I am becoming dependent on the Windows laptop because it can do
everything I need it to do, unlike in Ubuntu on the same machine or in
Mac OS 10.2 on the PowerBook G4 I used to have.  It works automatically
with all the digital projectors on campus, without having to reset
anything.  It works with all the printers.  The fan works on it.  And
the battery life is amazing.  I get at least 5 hours on every charge; by
dimming the screen, I think I have actually used it for 7 or 8 hours
before.  It's a very small, light Sony Vaio, and it's actually my wife's
computer, but she used it so little she is leasing it to me
indefinitely.  Ha!  Ha!  The unofficial Japanese version of Ubuntu
Breezy works really well on it.  The only problems I've run into are
printers (of course), battery life (only lasts about 2 or 3 hours,
although I heard there is some kind of patch for that), and the fan
always runs a little loudly.  In Windows it's super quiet, and even on
warm days, it stays that quiet for 2 or 3 hours.  The PowerBook G4, by
comparison, would get hot right away literally making it uncomfortable
to type, and the fan would kick in, so it was a little noisy, although
it had that wonderful, wide screen.

So even though I don't like Windows, and it's ridiculously slow on this
Vaio (about 1 gigahertz)--the G4 at 333 megahertz was much faster,
especially in Mac OS 9--it gets the job done.  Ubuntu on the Vaio
sometimes works with the projectors, it's much more reponsive than
Windows, Japanese input works great (Prime and Anthy), has all those
wonderful applications, the screen is perfect, and I actually find that
the Japanese fonts are easier to read in Ubuntu than in Windows, so
eventually I definitely want to get a Linux distribution working on it.
When you install the Japanese unofficial version of Breezy on it, you
really see the potential.  But that's a project for another time.

And for the near future, I see myself continuing to be forced to store
much of my data on this Windows laptop.  It would be great to be able to
have all the same files in all the same places on all three machines.
(Again, two of them running Linux and one running Windows).

How long did it take you to learn how to use Unison?

Joe