Hello, I'm new to OpenAFS and was hoping if the community could help me determine if it would be a good fit for my company. We are approx 150 people, with 50 home users and the rest in small offices of about 10-15 people. I would like to have a main file server that everyone can access, but also departmental servers in offices that would allow people to save files quickly (without going over the WAN).
In my dream scenario, I would have one main server in our data center that stores everything and is backed up. Each office would have a server that acts as a caching server. These servers would cache specific folders that are often used by the people in that specific office...any times changes are made, it is saved on that server and then transferred to the main server in the background. This would allow users in branch offices to have fast access to files and not have to wait for WAN transfers. And would prevent the admin team from backing up every department's server. Is this possible with OpenAFS? I read something about a Samba/OpenAFS gateway, would this be required? Or are there other products that you think might be a better fit? Also, is the windows desktop client used a lot of most deployments? How reliable is this? Thanks for the help! --Bill -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/New-to-OpenAFS-tp16093093p16093093.html Sent from the OpenAFS - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
