A friend of mine has two laptops, does a lot of traveling, and is in dire need of a better data-management solution. She has an Apple PowerBook G4 (recently purchased, hence Tiger is installed) as her main/desktop-replacement computer, and a small Sony notebook (700MHz P3) that will be used for traveling.
She has a TON of personal data that she access quite frequently. Right now, it's spread across a couple of computers in various versions, which makes me cringe.
I'd like to set up some type of system that can keep the two laptops in sync, especially when she's using the Sony notebook on the road.
I've thought of a couple of ways to set this up, but am looking for more suggestions. So far, the most workable scenario I've come up with would be to set up a NAS-type device (such as the Linksys NSLU2) with a sizable hard drive on her home network, behind a NAT device that supports VPN. When at home, the the Powerbook would stay sync'ed with the NAS drive (which, in this case, would also act as a redundant backup system as well). On the road, the Sony notebook would attempt to VPN over the Internet and sync the data with the NAS drive.
This seems like a plausible way to keep the latest version of a personal documents folder fresh on more than one computer. Anyone else have any ideas on how to go about doing this? Software/hardware recommendations?
She has a TON of personal data that she access quite frequently. Right now, it's spread across a couple of computers in various versions, which makes me cringe.
I'd like to set up some type of system that can keep the two laptops in sync, especially when she's using the Sony notebook on the road.I've thought of a couple of ways to set this up, but am looking for more suggestions. So far, the most workable scenario I've come up with would be to set up a NAS-type device (such as the Linksys NSLU2) with a sizable hard drive on her home network, behind a NAT device that supports VPN. When at home, the the Powerbook would stay sync'ed with the NAS drive (which, in this case, would also act as a redundant backup system as well). On the road, the Sony notebook would attempt to VPN over the Internet and sync the data with the NAS drive.
This seems like a plausible way to keep the latest version of a personal documents folder fresh on more than one computer. Anyone else have any ideas on how to go about doing this? Software/hardware recommendations?
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