Is there a Briefcase equivalent?

[dwolf]

I am using Mandrake Linux on a laptop and my preferred desktop is Gnome. As I am daily going forth and back between my laptop and a desktop workstation, I am wondering whether there is a tool similar to MS Windows Briefcase, which allows to synchronize files carried between computers on a removable disk? This would allow me to install Linux also on my office workstation.

Thanks!

[Disc0stoo]

This seems kind of pointless. Maybe I just don't fully understand what MS Briefcase does, but why not just "synchronize" them yourself? Like put 'em on a disk move 'em back and forth?

[Dun'kalis]

Umm.....FTP works....I don't understand Briefcase, either.

[Allen614]

I'm new to this myself but MS Briefcase is the same as Linux "synchronise".(spell?)

[camelrider]

Have you checked the manpage for 'tar' to see if it does what you need. If you are using zip disk or something similar you could probably tar up the files you want to take home to work on, untar them on your home machine, make your revisions, make a new tarball on the disk, take them back to work and untar the revised files into their old directories. I'm not sure if this is similar to the program you referred to, but unless you need more sophisticated sync'ing this old standby may be all you need. Some folks write pretty fancy scripts using the combinations of archiving and compression available in this utility.:cool:

[mdwatts]

rsync ???

'man rsync' to see if that would fit your needs.