From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 16:30:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EE716A4EF for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:30:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE1713C469 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:30:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B73B5D40; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:30:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id a3QQbm026bCp; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:30:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-116-136.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.116.136]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6F05CBE; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:30:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4613D2A7.6050209@mac.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:30:31 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tommy Scheunemann References: <20070404162447.j40cttjn28s0sgg8@zeus.arrishq.net> In-Reply-To: <20070404162447.j40cttjn28s0sgg8@zeus.arrishq.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Filesystem for BSD / Linux environment X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:30:42 -0000 Tommy Scheunemann wrote: > I'm running 2 server, one with FreeBSD and one with Linux. Now I want to > synchronize data between the 2 servers, over the internet so using NFS > isn't a solution at all. > Are there other possible ways of doing it ? AFS still seems in a > development state and Rsync over SSH might be another possible way of > doing it - would be just good if everything runs in background without > any interaction. rsync+ssh via cron every night works OK, at least if file changes are only being made on one system and not in parallel on both machines. If you want to do filesharing over the Internet, using a VPN such as OpenVPN with NFS or Samba works fine, too. It's easier to get Samba to pay attention to only the VPN address if you want to improve security; with NFS, you pretty much have to set up a firewall to contain it. -- -Chuck