OtterFox Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 So I have one windows XP computer and a linux laptop but I would like to synchronize certain folders between them, preferably automatically or at least in a kinda one click process after it's all setup. I've looked around and there seems to be a few options around for syncing software So my question is, has anyone used any of the various syncing software and can they recommend any? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 So I have one windows XP computer and a linux laptop but I would like to synchronize certain folders between them, preferably automatically or at least in a kinda one click process after it's all setup. I've looked around and there seems to be a few options around for syncing software So my question is, has anyone used any of the various syncing software and can they recommend any? I have been using synkron for synchronisation and backup, works well. It is rather dumb however, it just uses the last updated time of each file in order to determine which is newer. By default it does have a backup feature enabled where by any replaced file is moved some where else. This feature lacks the capability to automatically delete backups that are so many days old, so it can end up taking loads of space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 A Cloud based option is Dropbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gEEEk Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Hand out a SMB (?!?!) network share on the Linux Machine. Access the SMB share on the Windows machine and just use something like syncback to keep the network share and a folder on your Windows Machine identical. Or use DropBox. But then you're storing it on their servers and you've got a limited space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtterFox Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 Cloud based won't work...way too much data(think 30GB+). Synkron looks good, I think I'll have to test it out and maybe some of the others listed on wikipedia file synchronization too. I hadn't thought about backups, the main reason for my syncing is to syncronize my source code, books and music. because I would hate for my RAID0 array to die and for me to lose all my importaint data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bit Hunter Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 rsync should be able to satisfy your need... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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