sharing bookmarks with rsync

[james houston]

I would like to have my computer at home and my
computer at work to share the same bookmarks. My idea
was to have each of the computers sync with a server's
bookmark file. If the client has a newer file than the
server it would upload it, if the client has an older
file it would download it. I already have the
authentication keys set up and want to do it over ssh.

Would this be one way to accomplish this? Running this
command on the client computers periodically:

rsync -rptvlWe ssh --delete --progress --stats
~/Library/bookmarks.html
***@server.com:~/rsync/bookmarks.html

Thanks

jh

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[jw schultz]

Post by james houston
I would like to have my computer at home and my
computer at work to share the same bookmarks. My idea
was to have each of the computers sync with a server's
bookmark file. If the client has a newer file than the
server it would upload it, if the client has an older
file it would download it. I already have the
authentication keys set up and want to do it over ssh.

Unison is designed to to exactly what you want.

Post by james houston
Would this be one way to accomplish this? Running this
rsync -rptvlWe ssh --delete --progress --stats
~/Library/bookmarks.html

It can be done with rsync --update. As an excercise you
should justify to yourself each of the options you
used in that rsync command to sync a single file.

[Cedric Puddy]

Post by jw schultz

Post by james houston
I would like to have my computer at home and my
computer at work to share the same bookmarks. My idea
was to have each of the computers sync with a server's
bookmark file. If the client has a newer file than the
server it would upload it, if the client has an older
file it would download it. I already have the
authentication keys set up and want to do it over ssh.

Unison is designed to to exactly what you want.

Post by james houston
Would this be one way to accomplish this? Running this
rsync -rptvlWe ssh --delete --progress --stats
~/Library/bookmarks.html

It can be done with rsync --update. As an excercise you
should justify to yourself each of the options you
used in that rsync command to sync a single file.

Slightly off topic (please forgive me!), though
possibly relivent to problem at hand...

One point for Mozilla/Netscape users, is that Netscape 4.7x
and Mozilla 1.5 or better are supposed to support storing
their configuration and bookmarks on an http server, thus
allowing you to roam and run your browser on many
machines, and yet *always* have the same email, imap,
bookmarks, and preferences set. I haven't gotten
around to playing with it becuase I just got interested
in it as NS4.7 went out of style, and Mozilla 1.5
has only just come out. All the same, as near as I
can tell, it's going to be nirvana if it works
half as good as the feature description reads. :P

(roaming email settings would probably be useless
for POP server users, btw)

-Cedric