I'm build a honking desktop. I have a nicely functioning fast home networking setup 10/100 LinkSys).
What I want to do is keep the data files on the laptop and the desktop, or most of them, in synch on a daily basis. Overnight if necessary. 2 gigs data probably, although obviously way less than that changes each day.
By data files I mean a lot more than "My Documents". I mean favorites, probably cookies, Outlook 98 pst files, my downloaded web info (the whole 0 Info folder on both computers), all my downloaded programs and drivers in their compressed first arrived state (in the "9Downloads" on both computers), digital photos, mp3's, etc. I know where the stuff is, or can find it.
I suppose the "My Briefcase" is supposed to do something like this, but it seems like it's designed for floppy sneakernet transfers of a few files. Not really sure. Never played around with it and it looks rather kludgy.
Although maybe it's up to the task with a fast network connect.
What about this "Shared folders" thing Microsoft has.
Well, as you can see I'm pretty clueless here.
Some of you have got to be doing something like this.
Thank!!!
(Oh, by In Synch, ideally I mean this: the state of the folders in question will on source machine A will be exactly recreated on target machine B, including any deletions or renamings or other reorganizations. I don't want the synching to simply add anything that B doesn't have, without pruning what I pruned from machine A in that folder and subfolders, if they are on the synch list.)
What I want to do is keep the data files on the laptop and the desktop, or most of them, in synch on a daily basis. Overnight if necessary. 2 gigs data probably, although obviously way less than that changes each day.
By data files I mean a lot more than "My Documents". I mean favorites, probably cookies, Outlook 98 pst files, my downloaded web info (the whole 0 Info folder on both computers), all my downloaded programs and drivers in their compressed first arrived state (in the "9Downloads" on both computers), digital photos, mp3's, etc. I know where the stuff is, or can find it.
I suppose the "My Briefcase" is supposed to do something like this, but it seems like it's designed for floppy sneakernet transfers of a few files. Not really sure. Never played around with it and it looks rather kludgy.
Although maybe it's up to the task with a fast network connect.
What about this "Shared folders" thing Microsoft has.
Well, as you can see I'm pretty clueless here.
Some of you have got to be doing something like this.
Thank!!!
(Oh, by In Synch, ideally I mean this: the state of the folders in question will on source machine A will be exactly recreated on target machine B, including any deletions or renamings or other reorganizations. I don't want the synching to simply add anything that B doesn't have, without pruning what I pruned from machine A in that folder and subfolders, if they are on the synch list.)
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