Syncronising bti level

[Andrew Story]

Morning all,

Scenario:

Multiple sites, a datacentre and remote users.

The remote users home directories (redirected via Group Policy) are all held
on a file server in the datacentre, this is where the Firewall livess where
they VPN in for remote access. All use the standard Microsoft offline files
to synchronise their data.

When the remote users visit a site they synchronise their files back to the
server in the datacentre, this places a significant load on the respectives
sites WAN (especially if there are multiple people on the same site doing
the same thing).

We're about to implement COS and QOS which should alleviate some of this,
but I'm wondering how the rest of you tackle this issue at a technical
level. Are you aware of any software which will allow me to synchronise
these home directories across multiple sites file servers and update changes
at bit level - incrementally. Can DFS be used for this? If so can it
perform bit level syning instead of the full file? Can DFS with A.N.Other
application accomplsih this?

Any ideas?

[Cleve S.]

Andrew,

Look at this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb540031(VS.85).aspx
I believe it does what you want.

Cleve

Post by Andrew Story
Morning all,
Multiple sites, a datacentre and remote users.
The remote users home directories (redirected via Group Policy) are all
held on a file server in the datacentre, this is where the Firewall livess
where they VPN in for remote access. All use the standard Microsoft
offline files to synchronise their data.
When the remote users visit a site they synchronise their files back to
the server in the datacentre, this places a significant load on the
respectives sites WAN (especially if there are multiple people on the same
site doing the same thing).
We're about to implement COS and QOS which should alleviate some of this,
but I'm wondering how the rest of you tackle this issue at a technical
level. Are you aware of any software which will allow me to synchronise
these home directories across multiple sites file servers and update
changes at bit level - incrementally. Can DFS be used for this? If so can
it perform bit level syning instead of the full file? Can DFS with
A.N.Other application accomplsih this?
Any ideas?

[Andrew Story]

Thanks Cleve

Post by Cleve S.
Andrew,
Look at this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb540031(VS.85).aspx
I believe it does what you want.
Cleve

Post by Andrew Story
Morning all,
Multiple sites, a datacentre and remote users.
The remote users home directories (redirected via Group Policy) are all
held on a file server in the datacentre, this is where the Firewall
livess where they VPN in for remote access. All use the standard
Microsoft offline files to synchronise their data.
When the remote users visit a site they synchronise their files back to
the server in the datacentre, this places a significant load on the
respectives sites WAN (especially if there are multiple people on the
same site doing the same thing).
We're about to implement COS and QOS which should alleviate some of this,
but I'm wondering how the rest of you tackle this issue at a technical
level. Are you aware of any software which will allow me to synchronise
these home directories across multiple sites file servers and update
changes at bit level - incrementally. Can DFS be used for this? If so
can it perform bit level syning instead of the full file? Can DFS with
A.N.Other application accomplsih this?
Any ideas?