Automatic sync of two macs.

I have 2 macs (iMac desktop and Mac Book Pro) I would like two sync the two every evening to be identical. Including the applications and system folders as well as users and documents etc. The sync will need to be done every day to update files that have been modified on either machine. Is it possible to do this via Time machine or is there a third party software that is capable of doing the same thing? if possible at all.

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I have 2 macs (iMac desktop and Mac Book Pro) I would like two sync the two every evening to be identical. Including the applications and system folders as well as users and documents etc. The sync will need to be done every day to update files that have been modified on either machine. Is it possible to do this via Time machine or is there a third party software that is capable of doing the same thing? if possible at all.
Time Machine is a backup application, not a sync app. There are some apps that will do some of what you want, but including applications may be a bit much for them.
You can't really synchronize the system folders, as they aren't entirely the same -- they have different drivers, and different preference panels, among other things. This is why you can't successfully do a full system restore of one Mac's TM backups (or bootable clone) to a different Mac.
An Apple MobileMe account will do some automatic synchronization: http://www.apple.com/mobileme/ I've never used it, so can't recommend for or against. You might want to browse and/or post in it's forums, in the +Digital Life+ section: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=116

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