How many folders are shared to your users? I’m unsure if this is best for you, but it may be easiest to export folders for each workgroup or project. In that case, users connect to your server and only see the folders they could access. They are unable to see any other shared folders.
We run this in production so project names are not visible to those who should not know about them.
The issue is going to be the latency between the servers. Rsync will get the job done, but I would suggest running multiple instances at once to get decent bandwidth.
Also check out Aspera Sync. Aspera works very well over high latency connections and it could be scripted / automated.
Does the platform need to be on AFP? It could be easy to use SMB with decent performance from Linux to OS X clients. I’m also seeing good performance over NFS. SMB seems to be the easiest however, since the drive “mounts on the desktop” of the client stations.
August 17, 2009 at 2:22 am
in reply to: VPN#376878
I suggest testing in a non-production environment before deploying this to your live system. You could also test using OS X Server in VMware. It’s nice to have snapshots so you don’t have to re-install after “breaking” the system. 🙂
Crashplan is a nice solution because it lets you “seed” backups to a local drive, and then move that data to the backup server. This way, the initial backup does not take a long time over the WAN.
I have also been using Atempo Time Navigator with great success for the past several years. Time Navigator supports Mac, Windows, Linux, etc… It is also nice because it has a Mac native interface. Their “Live Backup” product may be a nice fit for the PC users: http://bit.ly/tTf2n
“Atempo Live Backup gives end users the ability to recover their own files, while IT administrators can centrally manage all distributed data assets.”
I personally do not have experience with the Live Backup solution, but our servers have never lost data with Time Navigator. *knock wood* 😉
I have the same issue with the AFP logs. Ideally, it would be much like apache or vsftpd logs. Here is a snip from the FTP log I’m referring to:
[code]Sun Aug 16 13:42:28 2009 [pid 4686] [username] OK UPLOAD: Client “4.34.33.24”, “/path/to/file”, 5848 bytes, 24938.59Kbyte/sec
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In my opinion, the system should show the username, IP address and full path to the file. Bandwidth will be nice as well for troubleshooting and statistics.
I will continue to look for a solution, and if I will post any updates.
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