Sounds like you need GIT or SVN for revision control, and accountability/trackability of changes. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:29, Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> wrote: > Our company was just acquired by one in TX. We are now in the position of > having to keep a local and remote linux (Centos54) file servers synced up. > We have an automated build process that spits out about a 4GB build every > night or even more often at times. This is now being done on the corporate > network. We have local test facilities that use these builds, as well as > corporate facilities that need access to our local resources. It's all > getting to be pretty messy. > > We are trying to keep the file servers synced up using rsync. Unfortunately > sometime it takes a while for this huge amount of data to be synced up, or > worse, someone makes a change to the local server's files, which gets > overwritten on the next rsync. > > I was wondering if there was a way to create a common file system between > both sites (here in MN and TX). GFS sounds like it might work, but I have > not found anyone who claims to have done this on Google. I remember there > use to be AFS which worked in a similar fashion. > > Guess I'm hoping to set something up where files will exist on both > networks. When a file is opened, the network compares the local and remote > file systems and the newest version is used. If the remote is the newest, > it's transferred to the local as it is used so the local cache is updated > and the next use will be entirely local. Am I dreaming? > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks. > > --- > Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those > 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," > Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, > (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- -- If there is a question to the validity of this email please phone for validation. Proudly presented by Mutt, GNUPG, Vi/m and GNU/Linux via CopyLeft. GNU/Linux is about Freedom to compute as you want and need to, and share your work unencumbered and have others do the same with you. Key : 0xD53A8E1