Thread: ssh networking - sync home folders ?

ever since had hard drive had unexpected mechanical failure 2 years ago (& had pay $1400 have drive pulled apart in vacuum & copied), i've been understandably paranoid ensuring keep multiple up-to-date copies of hard drive.

currently, i'm running 3 computers- tv computer, wife's computer & main computer. second hard drive in main computer & external hard drive both act solely backups home folder. tv computer & wife's computer keep identical home folder main.

have ssh installed on computer's & have made bookmarks via places menu's 'connect server', it's easy me exchange files between computer's...

problem this; every time save/download/change file, have copy 4 other hard drive's. it's kind of annoying.
can suggest ways me save time ???
it's wired network static ip's. 3 computers pretty turned on 24/7.
i'm open middle-of-the-night scheduled type of thing or whatever. if there way keep 3 computer's home folders in active sync, great.

p.s. computer's running debian squeeze & ubuntu lucid

rsync want. install sshd , sshfs on 3 machines. then, mount /home folder of source machine on target machine. run rsync (try cron). example:

code:

sudo sshfs user@host:/home/user /mnt

and sync directories

code:

rsync -avz --update --delete --progress /home/user /mnt

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