Hi, For your second question, you can use rsync on windows too. I have co-workers who use rysnc for backups on windows machines..
There is a tutorial in the link below. And also you can follow the links in the tutorial as well for more details. http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows_rsync.html scs On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Henry Umansky <human...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > This is not a question regarding ZF per se, I just want to know how others > would handle the same situation. Currently I was given a task to develop a > PHP ZF app on a Windows Server 2k8 running IIS7. Problem is that I'm using > Mac Leopard and connecting to windows using SMB through the Zend Studios 6.1 > IDE. This process is painfully slow, every key stroke takes about 3-5 > seconds to register and connecting to SMB before I open ZS is an extra step > I would like to cut out. I've isolated the problem to Zend Studios, since > other text editors like TextWrangler or Komodo Edit are fine. So my question > is this, how are others connecting to windows servers and developing PHP/ZF > applications and what IDEs do they use and what connection protocol does > your organization allow? > > Also, on a side note, does anyone know of a tool that will allow me to > easily package and migrate my application from development server ---> QA > server ----> finally the two load balanced production server? The old method > of connecting to all three via SMB and using the drag and drop method is > getting old and I want to minimize downtime. Right now I can do each > front-end independently, but there is about a 5-10 second lag until our load > balancer detects the 500 error, and sends traffic to the other front-end, > when I copy the folders over. I guess it ultimately comes down to, is there > an rsync equivalent to windows if so, what is it? > > Thank you, > Henry >