[itdiscuss] File Sync Solution

[Jeffrey Thompson]

Unison does a wonderful bidirectional sync and runs inside ssh (secure  
shell) and is free and runs on all platorms.  You could have it run as  
a cron job from a script that checked via ping if the system to sync  
with is present.

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On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:14 PM, <blloyd at buskercom.com> wrote:

> I’m trying to come up with a file sync solution over a https connect 
> ion to a file server on our network.
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> I have several laptops that have not been joined to the domain.   
> These machines need to work on documents offline.  When they are  
> connected to the Internet, I would like them to “auto-sync”  
> documents to a file share on our network.  I’d like to do this secur 
> ely and I want to leave keep these computers off of the domain for s 
> ecurity and ease of use reasons.  Any thoughts or experiences?
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> Thanks,
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> Bill Lloyd
> IT Manager
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