Re: How to keep /home on two laptops in sync?

Timothy Murphy wrote: 
I have two twin laptops - Sony C1 Picturebooks -
call them martha and william.
Both are rather old and feeble,
and liable to fall over at any time.

I'd like to get the /home directories on the two machines into sync.
I'm wondering if I just rsync one /home onto the other /home
if this is likely to cause any confusion?

What will cause confusion is if you edit the same file in different ways on each machine, or don't keep the clock on the machines close. 

Is this a situation that is often encountered?

I do incidentally back up both laptops onto my desktop frequently,
using rsync -auvz --exclude '$MAIL/.Spam.directory/*' (plus a few more excluded directories).

My question really is whether it would be safe to rsync /home directly
from one laptop to the other?
I'm wondering eg about files containing the name or IP address
of the current laptop?

You should be reading them out of something else unless you really enjoy pain.

Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.

No matter how you do it you won't be quite satisfied. Sorry, been trying for years and still find corner cases.

--
bill davidsen
  SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
  http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com
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