Unison File Synchronizer is a a cross-platofrm, GPL’ed tool for keeping filesystems synched across machines.
I am really interested in this kind of technology that not only does mirroring of directories & files, but mirrors them in such a way that when you modify the file it doesn’t copy the whole file across the network but instead copies over changes at the byte level.
Other options might be Windows Distributed File System or Coda file-system on Linux.
I think it would help with the Dallas to Portland connection, but I think it would be especially useful for sharing with China and Malaysia offices. That way, if someone wants to pull down a file that’s already been uploaded & synched, they will be pulling down a local copy — much much faster than pulling down a copy over the LAN. We may ever consider mirroring our intraweb app server, so people can access it like they are in their local office.
April 17th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Thief. Ok, just kidding, but I have been using unison for months. I backup my laptop to two USB hard drives and to Portland. It works pretty darn good, and is bi-directional, which is pretty darn nice as a sort of pseudo-cvs.