I am not sure about the on-topic'ness of the thread, but will put in my 2c worth anyway. After open-source solutions exist for this sort of thing. There's document management systems out there that could handle this sort of thing - although don't know of any off the top of my head. You must have some sort of centrally managed storage system or you've got problems. You basically need, at the very minimum, some way of controlling where files are stored (even if on each workstation), and ensuring that the rules thereof are followed rigidly. This in itself would be near impossible in some situations. Out of interest, how are all the files backed up if they are spread out? What OS? network structure?
Fil
Phil,
in regards to how we (i) backup - all machines have certian directories where job related files are kept, each machince has a backup client which sychros with my machine (server ) and another machine every hour or so, this way there is always two separate copies of everything!, most documents are weekly backed up to cd and CAD files incrementally backed up (very big). I have found this to be the most efficent way for me - however i am willing to accept any advice on that one as well!! :)
OS - 1 *nix (debian) - very old P1 200 MHz - the rest windoze - this is not really by choice since CAD packages we work with are not ported to *nix
The most reasonable solution seems to be a central server and a fast LAN (we only have a 10/100) and a database on it.
What database packages are available to do the previously mention tasks, preferably low cost since we are by no means a large organisation!
thankyou for you time
gerard
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