Comments on: How are You Managing Data on Netbooks with Other Computers?

By: Иван Иванов

Иван Иванов — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:03:46 +0000

Хм… Пока это у нас не сильно развито, так что придётся немного подождать.

By: Nameless

Nameless — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:47:22 +0000

I don’t have a netbook per se, but my HP TC1100 might as well be one-albeit one I can write and draw on!

My main computer is a desktop. Q6600 3.2 GHz, 8 GB of RAM, 8800 GT 512 MB, 500 GB HDD-it’s the one that does all the hardware-intensive stuff, as you might expect.

I just registered a Dropbox account, which I’ll probably use to sync my OneNote notebooks with my desktop and back them up in the process.

I do NOT have access to an Exchange server for my PIM data. I literally use Outlook 2007 only because Windows Mobile requires it for PIM synchronization. (My desktop would easily make a nice Exchange Server for sure, but I still have to be able to use it like a normal desktop. I could install Windows Server 2008 since I have it courtesy of DreamSpark, but I may run into issues that I wouldn’t with Vista or Win7. Why can’t they integrate basic Exchange functionality in Outlook for personal use?)

My main method of distributing data between my computers is through the home network, no third-party cloud included. My desktop often acts as a home file server since it has the largest drive by far. Everything works fine that way, even over Wi-Fi, though especially large files really call for an Ethernet connection.

By: Matthew Block

Matthew Block — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:18:15 +0000

My company has just released a data synchronization product for Netbooks, called “Easy Computer Sync”.

It uses the USB 2.0 Easy Transfer Cable, which is the fastest way to get data on or off of a Netbook. You can quickly move gigabytes of movies, music, or other data in a matter of minutes, instead of waiting for a slow wireless connection.

And don’t worry, it handles timezone changes correctly!

Visit http://www.EasyComputerSync.com for more information.

By: Marti

Marti — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:20:59 +0000

My frequenty used data is in a pen drive of 8GB. This pen drive is backup in my master laptop where also the remaining of the data is available. My master laptop is backedup frequently (inluding the backup of my pendrive). I can have additional backups of my pendrive in several other laptops.

I travel with my pendrive.. The laptop I use depends o the ocassion. My pendrive is the source always, I can use the backups in laptops for display only tof he files.

I do not trust syncronization software. I got problems in the past as I travel a lot and this software failed upon moving across timezones.
I do not like to get stuck with web storage services because you get stuck with their systems.

By: a.cantos

a.cantos — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:38:52 +0000

i don’t have much data on my home computer or my netbook. i usually store my important data on a separate external hard drive so i can easily access it without the need to transfer files. and no syncing is required as well. but i put extra care to the device.

hold on… i think i still need to have a backup.

By: John Tucker

John Tucker — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:03:07 +0000

I don’t have a netbook, but I am using SpiderOak to backup and sync data between my laptop and desktop, not to mention to backup the files I use on my laptop. If I had a netbook, SpiderOak would be at the top of my list. Works great!

By: Galtish

Galtish — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:31:39 +0000

I think it needs to go beyond syncing just our data, what about our applications and other system configurations? While there would be some inherent complications, it would be great to have tools that would enable us to install or upgrade an application on one machine and have that propagate to the other machine(s) automatically.

By: Kal

Kal — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:49:08 +0000

– Hamachi Logmein VPN for syncing OneNote notebooks
– Exchange server for email, PIM
– Xmarks
– Windows Live to sync everything else

By: Gordon Cahill

Gordon Cahill — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:01:41 +0000

I also use external and thumb drives. Probably should have had that on the poll.

Gordon

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:43:26 +0000

I really only use my netbook (1000HE) and my touch pro. Sync over BT for most files. I use a USB cable for music and vids tho. I am soooooo glad I made BT a requirement for my netbook.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:28:05 +0000

Another vote for Live Mesh.

By: Doug Mohney

Doug Mohney — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:07:09 +0000

Does a USB drive count as “physically connecting” the two devices?

And I’m still annoyed because the SanDesk/U3 mail sync program doesn’t work all that great when it comes to searching for data bits…

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:48:15 +0000

I don’t keep any data on my netbook. I’ve got everything stored on a Windows Home Server and can access it remotely if I need to. Of course that means everything is shared on my LAN if I need access to it that way as well. I also use Xmarks for bookmarks.

By: Christian Karlsson

Christian Karlsson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:26:01 +0000

Oh… and subversion of course. And I use Google Docs alot. Haven’t found a good way to sync Microsoft Office yet thou. It works somewhat with subversion but it isn’t perfect. Any solution?

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:58:49 +0000

ditto.

By: MarceloR

MarceloR — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:34:35 +0000

I have several machines that I need to keep in-sync, unfortunately it is not feasible to keep my “stuff” in the cloud due to size and other requirements (e.g., versioning.)

Having been fiddling around with UNIX machines since the eighties, my solution is more along the DIY line with existing tools. I draw a distinction between what I produce and what others produce.

I use version control (Subversion) to sync the files I produce (separate repositories for scientific production, personal stuff, etc.) Sync is automatic for some repositories and manual for others that I need to attach an explanation of version changes.

For the stuff that is produced by others (journal articles, scanned books, info on diverse topics, etc.) there is no need for version control so I use rsync. Rsync is setup to automatically sync the machines found on my network.

For off-site backup I use rsnapshot to backup all of this on my backup server and take copies on a portable drive to work every few days or so.