Syncronising bti level

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?

Andrew,

Look at this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...31(VS.85).aspx
I believe it does what you want.

Cleve

"Andrew Story" <andrewDOTstoryATjameswalkerDOTbiz> wrote in message
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> 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?
>

Thanks Cleve


"Cleve S." <> wrote in message
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> Andrew,
>
> Look at this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...31(VS.85).aspx
> I believe it does what you want.
>
> Cleve
>
> "Andrew Story" <andrewDOTstoryATjameswalkerDOTbiz> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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?
>>
>
>