Comment Re:Cisco already makes a product to do this - WAAS (Score 1) 291
Right, several things to consider:
1) Is it necessary to continuously seed
2) Ongoing sync -- i.e., are these files changed on the fly
Right, several things to consider:
1) Is it necessary to continuously seed
2) Ongoing sync -- i.e., are these files changed on the fly
presumable "on steroids" means "with a fancy GUI".
rsync does this too. rsync can push or pull.
besides, there are plenty of rsync gui's, too.
however, bittorrent is almost certainly the best solution for this purpose -- the real question is coherency. You always know that eventually you'll have a complete and perfect copy at each location -- but how do you know WHEN that copy is complete so you can work on it? if this is strictly a backup system, then it's not needed, but it's probably not a good thing to be using files as they're being written:
some scripting -- rsync or BTdownload -- would fix this. copy the files to a working location when the update is complete, and then work from there while updates are restarted on the temp dir.
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