[NBLUG/talk] talk idea (backing up your system)

[Troy Arnold]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:13:56AM -0800, Aaron Grattafiori wrote:
> Heh... synchronizing files between laptops/desktop/server is something
> i'd love to know how to do. I really don't think I have time to figure
> it out and then talk about it. I'd imaging rsync though
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync

There was a thread here recently on this topic.  To recap: Other approaches
include tsync, Unison or Subversion (or any revision control system that
doesn't suck WRT to mv'ing stuff)

Subversion is handy because of it's built-in merge abilities, ease of
branching and flexibility in what you check in and out.  For instance, it'd
be pretty straightforward to have a common ~/.vim*, shared among multiple
machines, but .kde and the like shared only among compatible desktop
machines.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
http://tsyncd.sourceforge.net/

And in case anyone ever wanted to get started with revision control but
thought it was too complicated -- it's not.  There are excellent docs
online here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ (or you can buy the book)

Get through the first four chapters and you'll be competent with the
basics.

-troy