"Roaming profiles" style system... suggestions?

[Andrew Hammond]

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Madison Kelly wrote:
|   As it stands I am currently planning to have the server connect to
| each client at night using 'rsync' and copying any deltas over to the
| server before running a backup. What I would really like to do though is
| have a setup similar to MS' "roaming profiles" like I used to use over
| Samba. I know that I could use an NFS share as the user's home directory
| which is mounted at boot. That though would limit the system to one user
| to a given machine.

I don't know what you're talking about with "limit the system to one
user to a given machine".

The usual way to do this is NIS and NFS. You can throw automounter into
the mix too, if you're working with more than a dozen or so active users.

If you're dead set against NFS (or some other networked filesystem),
then you might take a look at unison instead of rsync

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