[NCLUG] A *nix DFS alternative?

[DJ Eshelman]

as fate would have it, I just stumbled across DeltaCopy- which is a 
windows implementation of rsync that does delta-based sync on Windows...

not sure how well this would work for me, but for offering clients a 
storage location for their files, this could be an interesting solution.

-DJ


On 2/22/2010 2:37 PM, grant at amadensor.com wrote:
>> Under ideal conditions, I could see 10Mb/sec sustained, though I think
>> it'll probably be more like 6Mb/sec (limited by upload speed from the
>> main server- downloads top 30 Mb/sec with Comcast Business), but I can't
>> have it high priority on the pipe so other services aren't affected.
>>
>> Speed probably isn't the major factor, honestly; the whole reason to
>> sync locally is to avoid having to download/cache each file
>> individually; I can just have her work off of a Samba share to make it
>> easy for her.  Initially I was thinking web folders and just place the
>> whole thing out there hosted (we have a webserver on a Tier1 network),
>> but the storage would get out of control quickly.  Actually, in thinking
>> more about this I may decide to keep using that server as a front-end;
>> it would cache files for clients, keeping an archived copy on my main
>> server- then delete the files from the front-end after say 30 days.
>> That may end up being the way I go down the road- but I just wanted
>> something better than having her clients email attachments (yuck)
>>
>> -DJ
>>
>>      
> Perhaps WebDAV meets Squid?
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