I want to synchronize my personal document repository between my different computers in my home. Today this folder is under a dedicated partition of the hard drive of a dual boot workstation.

My configuration is the following one:

1. Dual boot Workstation running Ubuntu 11 and windows Xp (the documents are simply shared using the dedicated partition)
2. Laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 (Today no access to the documents)
3. A freebox with an external hard drive pluged to it

What I want is to be able to synchronize this document folder also with the laptop and in addition to have a "backup" of this on the hard drive attached to the freebox.

What tools should I use for this (rsync, unisson, others  ?) Any comments, experiences and ideas are welcome.

Thanks in advance, Manu

I want to synchronize my personal document repository between my different computers in my home. Today this folder is under a dedicated partition of the hard drive of a dual boot workstation.

My configuration is the following one:

1. Dual boot Workstation running Ubuntu 11 and windows Xp (the documents are simply shared using the dedicated partition)
2. Laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 (Today no access to the documents)
3. A freebox with an external hard drive pluged to it

What I want is to be able to synchronize this document folder also with the laptop and in addition to have a "backup" of this on the hard drive attached to the freebox.

What tools should I use for this (rsync, unison, others?)