Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:03:22 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ed Flecko <edflecko@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD equivalent of Microsoft DFS Message-ID: <4C6107CA.5090607@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin9LzsowG4aTEtHp0Bx_GBgvWrvVN80CCdaaDUr@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin9LzsowG4aTEtHp0Bx_GBgvWrvVN80CCdaaDUr@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/08/2010 23:42, Ed Flecko wrote:
> Is there a FreeBSD equivalent to Microsoft DFS, i.e., software that
> will replicate delta level file changes of network shares among
> multiple servers in real time?
It's not 'real time' but you can achieve something like this by using a
combination of ZFS snapshots and ZFS send / receive.
> Would that be rsync with just a frequently scheduled cron task?
Which works very well indeed in many situations.
Someone else has already mentioned distributed filesystems line AFS --
another thing to contemplate is the new HAST capability in FreeBSD:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST
It's conceptually similar to Linux DRBD, which in theory you can use
under FreeBSD as well, but no idea how it performs.
Cheers,
Matthew
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