best way to synchronize laptop and server?

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

I use the old plain rsync. I use it to sync FreeBSD with OSX and Win2K
(with cygwin). Doesn't work as well with solaris though due to version
differences. It works great both locally and over the network.

Cheers,

TAA

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, 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.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> - Evan
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