3 thoughts:
a) You really really really don't want the "rsync" UNIX program. It was
only ever intended for a one-way copy. Anything the home office did
would be clobbered by work done by the remote office, and the remote
office would never see any changes made by the home office.
b) I believe SBS is only good for up to 75 users
c) This is what DFS-R is made for. The initial sync would be... painful,
but, thanks to the magic of Remote Differential Copy, it will only copy
the changes to the files.
Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
Anybody here running a small-business network with multiple geographically-
remote (e.g. Arizona, Wyoming, Maine, Florida) offices for which the main
office and the remote office both need access to the same large files (e.g. CAD
drawings, large scientific datasets, GIS data)? The files are way too large to
process over a VPN as Internet latency would clobber processing performance,
but the home office needs to have the same data that the field office has so
they can both work on the data, if not simultaneously, then on the same day. I
don't think a TS setup would be reliable enough for this situation as the
main=office's Internet connectivity isn't the most reliable.
Servers will probably be Windows SBS servers as I think SBS can handle the
number of users they have for Exchange (up to 250 users, right?).
I'm thinking some sort of 'rsync'. but I'd be interested in how others have
dealt with this.
Related to this, how do you deal with email in a situation like this? I'm
showing my ignrance about Exchange here, but is it possible to have a primary
Exchange server in the main office and have each satellite office with its own
mail server that draws from the main office but stores mail locally so local
users can continue to have access to their email when the main office's lines
are down, or is this something that the SBS-version of Exchange can't handle?
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