[pmwiki-users] Syncronizing

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Feb 5 15:45:23 CST 2006


On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
> I've been playing with PMWiki and have an idea for how to use it for my own
> personal note taking. But I would like to ask if it's possible to
> "syncronize" two copies of PMWiki?
> 
> I'm thinking of these two alternative, assume two machines A & B with an
> indentical installation of PMWiki:
> 
> +   Machine A is the main machine and I usually do all my work there.
>     For some reason I need to travel, can I then just copy the wiki.d
>     folder to B (a web server) and it will still work?
>     
>     Can I then just copy the wiki.d folder back to machine A when I'm
>     back home to get an "updated" wiki on A.

Yes.

> +   I have the identical set up on both machines (identical wiki.d folder),
>     I add some new pages on A and some on B, I make some changes to pages
>     on A that does not conflict with changes that I do on B. Can I now
>     use a file synchronization program to make sure that I've got the
>     same files/pages on both machines?

Yes, as long as there's not a page that was modified on both A and B.

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