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I have a desktop & a laptop on my desk. While desktop is connected to network (LAN), laptop isn't.
Give me some creative idea on how do I keep these two machines in sync.

Thanks.
 
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By "creative" you mean meaningless?
If not then this question goes to General computing...
 
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Remove the laptop's harddisk, connect it to a harddisk interface cable in the desktop, copy the contents to or from the laptop harddisk, and put the harddisk back in the laptop.

Hey, you asked for creative ideas, not practical ones?!

A bit more practical is buying a network cable and connecting the laptop to the network, so that you can easily copy files to and from it from the desktop.
 
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get an ext. hd and use the sync feature the s/w shd come with.
 
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use rsync to synchronize the directories that you care about. Do not attempt to synchronize all directories, unless you *know* that the hardware is identical. And maybe not even then.

setup a cron job to run the rsync automatically.
 
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But Pat, do you think that's going to work if the laptop is not connected to the network?
 
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Jesper Young wrote:But Pat, do you think that's going to work if the laptop is not connected to the network?



Wow, sorry, missed that part.

I can't imagine a computer these days not being connected to a LAN and onto the greater Internet.

Even cell phones are connected to the Internet
 
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Jesper Young wrote:Remove the laptop's harddisk, connect it to a harddisk interface cable in the desktop, copy the contents to or from the laptop harddisk, and put the harddisk back in the laptop.



The last thing I'd do...


A bit more practical is buying a network cable and connecting the laptop to the network, so that you can easily copy files to and from it from the desktop.



Can't do that due to some reason.
 
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Arvind Mahendra wrote:get an ext. hd and use the sync feature the s/w shd come with.



This one is cool but I'll have to buy external hard drive.
 
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Can there be a software provides:
1. I configure the folders I care about, once.
2. It creates some kind of file, when I run it.
3. I take that file through USB drive or something & copy it in my laptop.
4. It sync the folders in my laptop (incremental or just the delta), when I run it again in my laptop.

I think, sync mentioned by Arvind does similar kind of job...
 
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Amit Ghorpade wrote:By "creative" you mean meaningless?
If not then this question goes to General computing...



You can move it into general computing but I am okay with wired kind of ideas.
 
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ankur rathi wrote:

Jesper Young wrote:A bit more practical is buying a network cable and connecting the laptop to the network, so that you can easily copy files to and from it from the desktop.



Can't do that due to some reason.



In that case I would recommend dropping the laptop into wet concrete. Make sure the laptop is completely submerged. When the concrete hardens, you won't need to ask the question any more.
 
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ankur rathi wrote:Can't do that due to some reason.



This is starting to sound like an overly constrained problem.

You could use something like Laplink, which can use USB or serial cables, and if you buy the right version, the cables are included in the box. But from a practical view, its all the same whether you use Ethernet cable, WiFi, or special LapLink cables. Its a network connection, and then you can use either general software such as rsync or "scp" or the LapLink software.

From a practical view, its all the same.

You could use "sneakernet" or even "floppynet" which just means plugging in a USB dongle or floppy, copy the files, remove it, plug into second computer and copy again. But its really isomorphic.

With any connection, you want to use checksums rather than file system dates, and you need to detect and handle when some files are changed on each system. tools like CVS, SVN and GIT do this, but they assume a network.

 
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Paul Clapham wrote:

ankur rathi wrote:

Jesper Young wrote:A bit more practical is buying a network cable and connecting the laptop to the network, so that you can easily copy files to and from it from the desktop.



Can't do that due to some reason.



In that case I would recommend dropping the laptop into wet concrete. Make sure the laptop is completely submerged. When the concrete hardens, you won't need to ask the question any more.




Can't do that due to some reason.

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