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At 10:20 AM 10/17/2000 -0700, Tom Strand wrote:
>Our principal office uses ASIP as our primary file server. We are opening a
>branch office that will run NT as their file server. We would like to
>synchronize many folders between the two servers.
>(There is a signficant latency between sites. We are in San Francisco, they
>are in Beijing.)
>
>2) Synchronization software on the NT.
>
>I'm not an NT person. Should we enable FTP services on the ASIP server and
>try it this way? I know that FTP isn't an encrypted transaction, that is not
>a big problem now; but encryption would be better.
Do you not have the NT Resource Kit? It includes something called robocopy
which is meant for this kind of thing. If you enabled SMB sharing on the
ASIP, you'd have at least a modicum of encryption for the authentication
(I'm not sure what ASIP uses, probably merely LanMan).
Here's the output of robocopy /?:
Simple Usage : ROBOCOPY source destination /MIR
source : Source Directory (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).
destination : Destination Dir (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).
/MIR : Mirror a complete directory tree.
For more usage information run ROBOCOPY /??? or read Robocopy.Doc.
NOTE: Read "True Replication" in Robocopy.Doc prior to first use of /MIR !
**** /MIR can DELETE files as well as copy them !
How often should these synchronize? What you'd probably do is write a
script and schedule it to run on the NT server.
Very simplistically, this is what the script could look like:
net use M: \\asip.homeoffice.ef.org\sync
robocopy M:\ C:\sync /MIR
net use M: /delete
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