Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#1

Post by tejasm » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 8:43 AM UTC

I primarily use a Macbook Pro for work and carry it everyday from home to my office. I'm tired of doing so, and hence I'm planning to get a mac mini for office.

I have a difficult time deciding how to keep my files in sync. I could use dropbox or Google drive but syncing every little change becomes operationally difficult. Also, when I'm traveling and working offline, I might not have access to files on the other machine.

What solution do you use to address these issue?

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#2

Post by miduil » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 8:52 AM UTC

https://superuser.com/questions/31512/how-to-synchronize-the...

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#3

Post by tobyc » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 9:05 AM UTC

I just slip it in to my bag and open it when I get home. I sometimes have a few issues with after-work beers interfering with the sync process, but generally it works OK.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#4

Post by ForFreedom » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 9:19 AM UTC

miduil wrote: post #2

https://superuser.com/questions/31512/how-to-synchronize-the...

rsync would be good for small file size. If you were to sync for big files then you need a pretty good internet connection, like syncing 1GB file on a 10 MB would take under 15 mins.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#5

Post by ColinWright » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 9:35 AM UTC

I have a directory on each machine that are to be kept in sync, then I just put everything in a git repo. Go to work, pull, done. Go home, pull, done. Anything not in that directory is private to the machine, all my work is in the repo.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#6

Post by petecooper » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 9:53 AM UTC

I use BitTorrent Sync.

http://www.getsync.com

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#7

Post by mappu » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 9:59 AM UTC

Leave your work at the office.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#8

Post by jhildings » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 10:02 AM UTC

mappu wrote: post #7

Leave your work at the office.

Yes, and in the cases when you want to work at something home just mail it or something

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#9

Post by mappu » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 10:11 AM UTC

jhildings wrote: post #8

mappu wrote: post #7

Leave your work at the office.

Yes, and in the cases when you want to work at something home just mail it or something

Maybe SSH, or VNC, or vpn to samba, but mail's ok too

It's not so bad to have one canonical location for data (+backups).

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?

#10

Post by CalRobert » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 10:15 AM UTC

I leave my work laptop at work. After work I go to the pub, or a cafe, or to my apartment, and live life. Sometimes I work on personal projects, but _never_ on my work machine, and _never_ at work (the nature of invention assignment agreements makes this prudent).

Don't work for free.