[NCLUG] Re: DSL Throttling or General Congestion?

[Stephen Warren]

On Thu, August 21, 2008 9:36 am, grant at amadensor.com wrote:
> Is scp any better than CIFS at dealing with this kind of network?
>
> If it it, you may be able to set up a local machine in the remote
> office retrieving the files via SFTPFS in FUSE and then re-export it
> locally via Samba.  This might be better, then again, it might be worse.

I'm not sure whether SFTPFS would be good for this or not; for this kind
of semi-interactive usage.

I would recommend using a program called unison to replicate the data
instead. It's basically rsync, but supports multi-master replication, so
all sites can change the data content. Of course, it only support
multi-master at the file level, not within a file (for automatic
replication without manual conflict resolution using an external
diff/merge tool at least.)