On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 at 17:38, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > Well, having a central file system also means having a single point of > failure. Make sure you make regular and frequent backups lest the > failure of the central server for any reason whatsoever cause an > apocalypse for your organization!
I agree. For now this system works for us, but I know that this is not the epitomy of data storage. ;> > And please note that this will probably not properly scale to much > larger organizations and networks, although for the networks that > almost all of us manage, my cousin's system will be more than > adequate. It also doesn't work very well for geographically-dispersed > collaborative work (CVS will probably work better for this). Dido, we're considering a setup that I think fits your term "geographically-dispersed collaborative [net]work". Perhaps you (and some other PLUGgers more experienced in this area) can help me out with conceptualizing how things will work. We just finished renovating our old office in Makati, and we will soon open this as our second factory store, and our sales hub for the Makati area. Initially it will be just a store, with perhaps a few kiosks that connect to the office via dial-up for browsing and email. Soon, however, it will have a 256kbps connection to the Internet via PLDT DSL. While they won't need access to all the data on our central server immediately, it would be great if we could set up a server there that will essentially mirror the data we have here. Plain old mirroring is not a problem. rsync can handle the job really well, and I can do the initial dumping of data (between 10 to 15 GB for the data hosted by Samba and our PostgreSQL and LDAP databases) via LAN. The user database can probably be done via LDAP's own replication system (is this encrypted?) and the SQL can probably be copied out straight. It's having two working copies that are kept in sync that are more challenging to me. The ultimate goal is to be able to either go here or there (or any other such similar set up "hub") and work on any file as if you were in the main office. I read up on rsync last night (although I've been using it for longer) and am under the impression that it's a one-way system (ie: synchronizing one copy with another possibly more recent copy). I am not very familiar with CVS, yet. I've only used it so far to keep my copies of Horde and XFS in-sync with the main repositories. Do you think CVS can handle keeping two large repositories of data that are modified by various people at various stages of the day in sync? Another possibility that I'm looking into is something like Intermezzo <http://www.inter-mezzo.org/>. Unfortunately Intermezzo doesn't seem to be ready for primetime yet, but the documents on the web are interesting. Hmm ... any thoughts? :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
