Settings on multiple devices?

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Not sure where to place this, so please bear with me.

I’m using another small ultrabook for presentations and such, running Manjaro on it as well. Is there a decent way to sync settings (Chrome, Evolution, others) between devices, without too much overhead? I’d rather go for a sync solution instead of having full online home-dirs (eg no nfs server).

Any tipps? Regards

Christian

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You can transfer data from one place to another with rsync.
rsync -ahr /source /destination.
But the program must not run when running rsync.

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Nothing wrong with rsync, however I’d like to have it automated in some way. Is there anything that’d spare me from managing the include/exclude dirs myself?

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info rsync or man rsync explains, how to do that.

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Hi @datenimperator,

According to this answer on AskUbuntu:

crontab would be not good, cause it is executed each x seconds/minutes, so if i dont do anything, it will still call rsync but not if i modified my file

rsync will only sync the files that have been changed. If nothing has changed, it will exit. That’s really a minimal overhead.

If you’re unhappy with that you could use inotifywait:

while inotifywait -r /directory/*; do
rsync -avz /directory /target
done

That will be more instant but it will do things every time you save.

Save it as a script file somewhere, and set it to auto start on your PC.

Hope this helps!

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You could amend this script for your specific purpose.

Or install syncthing from the repo (website https://syncthing.net/)

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Oh yeah!

I forgot about syncthing for this. I use it for my Tablet and it works a charm.

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