Or hell, just schedule an rsync push/pull based on time intervals and system events. forget the whole nfs deal.
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 09:06, Paul K. Dickson wrote: > I don't know about any good network file systems other than the few you > have listed, but, have you considered that this kind of functionality > isn't really what the nfs should be doing? Usually, this stuff relies > on a set of tools that use nfs as a transport method. My only > suggestion would be to use automount, which will auto unmount should the > detination become unavailable, then run something that will occationally > check for the sync destination to exist, and run a sync at a time > interval you specify, on laptop resume, etc etc. > > I've attached a script that I wrote to check for the presence of my PDA > on the usb port. Perhaps you can modify it to fit your needs. Cron it, > whatever. It does, if I remember correctly, loop every 5 sec, so that > will most likely need to be adjusted. > > > If you come up with any solutions, I'd be pleased to hear:) I currently > just backup my laptop by tar.gzing the home folder once every couple > weeks, but I'd like to have it automated every time I plug in;) > > Paul K. Dickson > > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 22:19, Jens Mayer wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > beeing tired of synchronizing configfiles, browser's bookmarks > > and several other folders between various boxes in my LAN I came > > up with the idea to store my homedirectory remotely on my fileserver > > (a quite powerful Debian Woody box, XFS filesystem, recent kernel). > > > > So far, so good. If I had only desktops in my LAN, this wouldn't be > > much of a problem, perhaps Sun's NFS would be the choice (easy to set > > up, security concerns are not that important in my private LAN), or > > Samba, as I have experience with both of those two filesystems. > > > > But having a laptop I do pretty much work on I need something that > > allows "disconnected operation", that is: Caching the files accessed > > while network is unavailable and even having some files cached > > "sticky", like .dotfiles and similar stuff. This is important > > so I can work with the laptop if I'm not at home. > > > > After reconnection to the server, things should be synchronized again. > > > > Filesystems that come in mind to offer that functionality are > > Coda[1] and Intermezzo[2]. All in all they seem to be pretty > > "experimental", maybe Coda a bit less than Intermezzo. I'm > > not really sure how intensely these FS are developed: Intermezzo's > > last "News" entry on the homepage is dated over a year ago. Some > > folks on usenet say Coda is kinda "dead" since the developers > > itself think it's "overloaded" with features. > > > > OpenAFS[3] seems to have some sort of "disconnected operation" > > feature in it's TODO-list[4], but I haven't found much about > > this. > > > > I don't want to start a flamewar about NFS, AFS or other > > network filesystems. If anyone here has some experience > > with Coda or Intermezzo (or another NFS that could suit > > my needs), I'd like to hear. Bad news and good news. > > > > Mainly, there are two Gentoo Linux Clients I want to > > serve. I also have some SGI Indigos running IRIX and > > one NeXTstation running OpenSTEP, but I do not expect > > them to run any actual NFS. > > > > TIA, > > Jens > > > > Footnotes: > > ---------- > > [1] http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ > > [2] http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ > > [3] http://www.openafs.org/ > > [4] http://www.openafs.org/frameless/projects.html > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
