Keeping A Home & Work Computer In Sync

[joshmv]

Up until a couple weeks ago, I worked from home exclusively from my iMac. Now I upgraded to an office and got another iMac, but plan to work from both places.

I used my time machine backup drive from my home computer to setup my work iMac, so they were in sync originally, but now as I do more and more work on each, they get further away from having the same files on them etc.

I was just using a zip drive to try and keep everything matched, but that was harder than I thought and I don't want to be hauling the big backup drive to each place everyday.

Is there an easier way to do this?

Thanks!

Josh

 

[ChrisN]

What do you want to keep synced? Documents? To keep all my documents synced between both of my machines I use dropbox but I don't know if this is what you are talking about.

ChrisN

 

[BlueRevolution]

Well, .Mac is designed for that purpose, but it also costs a fair wad ($99/year if memory serves). If you only want to keep a collection of files synchronized, I recommend Dropbox, which is free. It synchronizes a particular directory on my iMac with the Dropbox website, where all of my files are accessible, with proper authentication, naturally. I also run the client on my iBook, so all of my files are instantly synced across computers the moment I save. That's great for updating school notes and for printing assignments using school printers. It also has clients for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Damn, beat me to it!

Update: I should mention that Dropbox's free account has a 2 GB limit. You can pay something like $5/mo to upgrade to a 20 GB limit.

 

[joshmv]

Thanks, I think thats the kind of thing I'm looking for so I'll check them out and hopefully pick the one that works best for my setup.

Thanks again,

Josh

 

[BlueRevolution]

Sorry, I just double-checked and Dropbox's upgraded service is $10/mo or $100/yr for 50 GB. That's the same price as Mobile Me (.Mac). The 2 GB service is still free, though.

 

[hhlee]

+1 for dropbox. do you have 2gb+ that you need to sync? if so, its probably worth using an external hd instead anyway.

 

[rtpub]

+1 for dropbox. do you have 2gb+ that you need to sync? if so, its probably worth using an external hd instead anyway.

I second the external harddisk idea... it's more secure (if you have concerns on the putting all your work onto the web), besides, a 2.5" harddisk w/ case isn't much to carry

 

[gazfocus]

One option would be partition your Time Capsule so that you've also got a portion that will act as a wireless network hard drive and store all your documents on there, then just access the files directly from the time capsule.

 

[toolbox]

Mobile Me? Does chrono sync work over the internet?