Comments on: Data Data Everywhere http://journal.nearbennett.com/2007/09/11/data-data-everywhere/ I was wondering "why is that Frisbee getting bigger?" And then it hit me. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: skippy http://journal.nearbennett.com/2007/09/11/data-data-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-110 skippy Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:54:01 +0000 http://journal.nearbennett.com/2007/09/11/data-data-everywhere/#comment-110 What you need to do is create a <a href=\"http://kitenet.net/~joey/svnhome/\" rel=\"nofollow\" rel="nofollow">revision controlled home directory</a>! Then your home directory can be the same on every computer you use, and you get multiple redundant backups (in the form of working copies on each of your workstations) for free! Because all of your home directories derive from the SVN repository, anything you save and check into the repository will be immediately available on all your other workstations. No more worrying about which machine holds which documents. What you need to do is create a revision controlled home directory! Then your home directory can be the same on every computer you use, and you get multiple redundant backups (in the form of working copies on each of your workstations) for free!

Because all of your home directories derive from the SVN repository, anything you save and check into the repository will be immediately available on all your other workstations. No more worrying about which machine holds which documents.

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