I'm looking for a way to keep a desktop and a laptop in sync. Something that I want to keep in sync are Gnote notes.
If it matters I can connect to my desktop from anywhere via an URL but my laptop is harder to access since it might be behind NAT and such.
This is a solution based on fossfreedom's answer, Synchronizing 2 Ubuntu Systems with Unison and the Unison manual. The differences are that I instead of using a GUI for Unison use the command-line version and that I instead of trying to tunnel past NAT always execute the sync command from the computer that might behind NAT.
sudo apt-get install openssh-server unisonmkdir ~/.unisonnano default.prf – Create a profile file named default.Write the profile file, e.g.:
root = /home/user
root = ssh://[email protected]//home/user
path = .local/share/gnote
Sync the computers by running unison -auto default on the computer that might be behind NAT. This will sync notes and it will ask the user what to do if there is conflicts. Note that you should close Gnote on both computers before syncing. I do this before and after my laptop leaves the LAN with my desktop to keep their notes in sync.
