syncing home partitions

[ted at gould.cx]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Eric \Shubes\ wrote:
> My notebook is set up with centos, ubuntu, and a common /home partition 
> (shared by both). I'm setting up my desktop the same way (w/ fedora as well). 
> Before I leave home, I'd like to synchronize the /home partitions between the 
> two.
> .) Is that practical?
> .) Is 'rsync' the best program to use for this application?
> .) Would it be wise to unmount the partition from /home and remount at 
> /mnt/home before syncing? (I'm thinking that some files will be open at the 
> time)
> Any advice welcome.

Well, I haven't done this yet, but I've been thinking about it.  Here are 
my two ideas.

- Keep my Documents (mostly what I want to sync, email is already IMAP) in 
a subversion repository on both.  Use SVK to merge the two regularly.  The 
advantage of subversion is that you can mount it as WebDAV, and then don't 
have to worry about checking things in/out.  I'm not too worried about 
keeping settings in sync.

- CODA.  CODA is very cool, and designed for almost exactly what we're 
talking about, but it seems really complex.  And, I'm not sure it can 
handle the size of data that I'm thinking (~20GB with photos and such).  I 
haven't looked at Intermezzo recently, but that's supposed to be a simpler 
off shoot of CODA.

 		--Ted