Hello, Thank you for your reply.
A /home NFS server won't work because of the bandwidth between the two server is not enough. I think a cron RSYNC job would be great -- do I just need to sync the non-hidden files in the /home/user folder? Any issues with permissions? Thank you Joseph On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:41 PM, theluketaylor <[email protected]> wrote: > You probably want to setup a cron rsync job if you really want to sync. > > a /home NFS server and mounting the user's files rather than storing them > locally would be a much more robust option. Depending on the bandwidth > between sites that might not be reasonable performance though. > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Joseph Bishay <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I hope everyone is doing well. >> >> Our school has moved to it's new purpose-built facility and things are >> working perfectly -- the building was wired so that all network jacks >> in the building are "home-run" back to the main lan room, where the >> LTSP server is. Thus the different bottle-necks we used to suffer >> from using single cable -> switch single cable -> switch are gone. >> >> One thing I need to resolve is how to sync the user's files in our old >> building to our new building. Some of the users still go back and >> forth, and we have an Edubuntu server at each location. Is there a >> recommended way to do so? Is it as simple as activating Ubuntu One >> (since it's built-into Edubuntu) for those users? Or is there >> something better. >> >> The two machines are not identical, so I'd only want to sync the user's >> files. >> >> Thank you very much! >> Joseph >> >> -- >> edubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
