Why not just get a cheap NAS for each location? If that seems to cost prohibitive for 50+ locations, why not install Windows Live Sync (or DropBox, etc) on each of the machines under the same account? All files would be transfered to ALL sites whenever you put it on a single machine.
*ASB *(My Bio via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Durf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all; > > I have a client who has multiple (50+) small sites with 2-10 PC's at each > site, most with no network file storage. So far I have been distributing > small files to each site using FTP from their central webserver, and that > has been working fine for small files. We're now investigating staging > larger files to these sites (100MB+, thanks Windows Live!) and utilizing a > cloud-based file depot for that purpose (Sharefile in this case). > > To minimize costs, I'd like if possible to utilize some sort of > peer-to-peer sync. In an ideal world, I would only download one copy of the > file to one machine at a given site, and the other machines would then look > to the peer "file server" for the file. In my ideal, the "file server" > would also be automagically selected, to prevent having to manually > designate a machine that may or may not be online at a given time. > > Does anyone know of a script or utility that would assist in this? The > process would be something like: > > 1. Site receives request to sync FOO.EXE > 2. Check local peers to see if a copy of FOO.EXE is present on the local > network. > 3. If yes, copy file from local peers. > 4. If no, a file server is "elected" and downloads the file. > 5. Remaining machines at site sync from the elected file server. > > BitTorrent would be an ideal solution, but we can't it for political and > technical reasons. > > Thanks, > Durf > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
