best way to synchronize laptop and server?

[Paul DiRezze]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> I have a laptop and a server, both running current Mandriva, and want 
> top be able to synchronize two directory hierarchies.
> After a while of the laptop being disconnected from the network, when 
> I reconnect I can make sure that both systems contain current versions 
> of files in these hierarchies.
>
> When connected to the network, the laptop mounts the server 
> directories using SMB (it's a mixed-client network).
>
> There must be a better way to do this than  `cpio -p`. Freshmeat has a 
> number of projects listed that seem to suit, but I'd like to know what 
> people here are using.

http://tsyncd.sourceforge.net/
This was one of the results of this year's google summer of code.  I 
have not tried it but it looks promising.

paul
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