Hello peeps I am looking for a program that can keep folders in sync. Basically I've got two computers that share similar folders: My Music, My Videos, Documents etc. I want both computers to have exactly the same files in those folders.
There are lots of programs which will do this. Personally, I've only used such a feature to sync files between servers, using the rsync program, so I'm not an expert here. This is antictodal, but it's not necessary on my desktops because my main files are on an NTP share on my server. So all of the machines on my network can access the files as if they were on a local machine, yet they are centralized. Instead of having redundant copies of the same files, perhaps you should just setup an NTP share on the machine with the bigger drive of the two?
In my situation, all of the redundancy is on the server, since it has a RAID-5 where the data is stored. But since you are basically sharing files between two desktops with no centralization, I see where such a program would be useful. In that case, rsync or maybe some newer incarnation of the concept would do it for you. If you want to go super Unixy-1337, you might look into NFS + LVM, making what basically equates to a RAID-1 of two shared NFS volumes. Along the standalone application route, there is of course rsync, Unison (which I've heard is quite good), Xfiles (Java-based, never used it), and many more with which I am less familiar.
