On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Joe Brenner <doom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Noah Silverman <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 1) Size. THIS IS MY MAIN CONCERN - If I want to sync my home, office, >> and server Document directories. From what I have read, I will >> effectively have multiple copies of each item on my hard drive, thus >> eating up a lot of space > > Pretty much any version control system is going to have this problem, > and it gets really bad if you've got any files that aren't straight text. Note that most people probably don't need to worry about this nowadays. Disk $/gigabyte just keeps dropping and is now at absolutely abysmally small levels. You can only fill up your disks if you download tons of movies and/or create tons of VMs. If you're struggling with a laptop drive that's too small, just buy a new one for $100 and solve all your problems. So you're fine with storing multiple copies. Just make sure your backup/syncing software has an expiration algorithm so you don't end up storing *all* the historical copies. I'd like to adapt bup to support this usage model eventually. However, I haven't yet written the expiration algorithm and it doesn't yet support two-way syncing. The fundamental design allows for this, though, so it's just a matter of having some free time. Meanwhile, you might want to take a look at something like rdiff-backup. Have fun, Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html