NFS or VPN?

E

everypot

Need advice...

I have a desktop in my office, another desktop at home and a laptop with me most of the time. I work in my office during the daytime, at home in the evening and on my laptop when I go to some place. I want to find a way to synchronize the documents on different machines. Should I use NFS or VPN? Which one is better? ( or i am not comparing a horse to a commode?)

Thanks.
 
Well, it's sort of comparing the horse and commode. :)

In this sort of context, NFS is basically the file sharing service/protocol. VPN gets you encryption on the wire, and lets you treat two remote networks/hosts as "local" in some respects.

Given the requirements you stated, yes - rsync over ssh (simply using the -e ssh option) might be a fine approach.
 
rsync uses ssh by default (and has for quite some time), so no need for the explicit -e ssh flag.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top