So, you've got a desktop or some big laptop beast that you use at home for just about everything, but when you go into town, to a meeting, to the library - wherever - you take your altogether more portable netbook gizmo. You're suspicious of online storage (no thank you, Norton) but want to be able to work on both machines without driving yourself crazy. So how do you sync your precious files?
Well, the simple answer is SyncBack by 2BrightSparks. There are various flavours of the SyncBack application - from a free home app for home use through to a "pro" version of a more robust nature with a few more bells and whistles. I'm using the free one, but am so impressed with it I'm tempted to buy the upgrade.
Anyway, it's all so simple. With SyncBack installed on the machines you want to sync, you set about creating profiles, so I've got four in total: two on each machine, one syncing a named folder (could be My Documents) to my USB key and another back from the USB to the folder. Same set up on the other machine. Perfect-o. Put in the key, run the profile, remove the key.. and so on.
Now, a limitation is if you want to sync your whole My Documents folder, obviously you'll need a monster USB key, or whatever -- but I'm only interested in syncing a couple of project folders, so for me this is just the bees knees.
