Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

Re:Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud by Random_Person on Thursday November 08, 2012 @10:01AM (#4758001)

This article seems to skip on one of the most important aspects of Ubuntu One for me: syncing my /Home folder.

I've been keeping my photos/documents synced across platforms for years with Dropbox. Ubuntu Ones service is significantly slower at this procedure... BUT, Dropbox doesn't give me the flexibility to sync my config files (or if it does, I have no idea how.)

Keeping my config files synced is immeasurably more valuable for me across my Ubuntu machines and makes a re-install much more pleasurable. I no longer need to spend the hour or so I used to setting up my software the way I like it... it just works.

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Re:Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud by meaty on Thursday November 08, 2012 @11:59AM (#4758624)

I just use a single laptop with a dock. Saves all the hassle of synchronisation.

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Re:Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud by Random_Person on Thursday November 08, 2012 @12:58PM (#4758931)

Well, yes... if only. I have my two work machines... which don't go home with me... and my two personal machines. I would, however, love to have a dock to replace my work desktop.

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Re:Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud by akurtzhs on Thursday November 08, 2012 @01:44PM (#4759183)

Couldn't you just store your config files in Dropbox and make symlinks? For example, my .vimrc is a symlink to Dropbox/.vimrc

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Re:Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud by Random_Person on Thursday November 08, 2012 @02:02PM (#4759283)

Sure, but then I have to rebuild those symlinks after install... now, I don't do installs every 30 days like some Linux users, but I do upgrade with each new release and having stuff "just work" is just simply beautiful.

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