I want to synchronize my personal document repository between my different computers in my home. Today this folder is under a dedicated partition of the hard drive of a dual boot workstation.My configuration is the following one:Dual boot Workstation running Ubuntu 11 and windows Xp (the documents are simply shared using the dedicated partition)Laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 (Today no access to the documents)A freebox with an external hard drive pluged to itWhat I want is to be able to synchronize this document folder also with the laptop and in addition to have a backup of this on the hard drive attached to the freebox.What tools should I use for this (rsync, unison, others?)
Backup and synchronization
linux;rsync;synchronization;unison
If you're always synchronizing in the same direction, use rsync. If you're synchronizing in both directions, use unison. Unison supports both Linux and windows; the documentation explains how to set it up under Windows (you'll need an SSH client as well).To synchronize between more than two locations, choose one as the master and synchronize every other location with the master. Here, set up both the workstation and the laptop to synchronize with the Freebox.You'll need to have a unison binary on the Freebox. Since it runs Linux and has an x86 processor, if it doesn't have unison already, you can copy the binary from any 32-bit Linux installation.