Questions tagged [synchronization]
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syncronise two local SVN checkouts
Quick overview of the problem.
I have a website that is in SVN and checked out on 2 different servers for load balancing. It's a drupal site and everything besides the assets and files directory is checked out locally on the servers.
Now on an…

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where are domain offline files settings configured in win 2k3?
We recently lost our domains win2k3 enterprise server where users offline files were stored. Every user's My Documents folder was redirected to this server and the user's files were synchronized to this server at logoff and logon. We have a…

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Web Server Synchronization
I'm having 2 identical webservers(running IIS) which i intend to load balance with Hardware Based Application Load Balancer. I need a Synchronization software to do real-time sync of the data between the 2 servers. Any suggestions for a good sync…

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Real time Sync between two folders on different servers
What is the best way to sync two folders completely in real time over two servers (Ubuntu) in same network? Do you think syncing folders is a better idea than having a shared folder? If a shared folder is better, how can I set this up?

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NFS server and delay in using tail -f?
We have two Solaris servers, let's call them Alice and Bob.
We also have a Solaris NFS server used by both of them, call it Charlie.
Alice writes to a text logfile on the NFS server, which is then read by Bob, who acts on events in that logfile.
The…

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Unix timestamp deviation
I have two Ubuntu servers which synchronize their timestamp to europe.pool.ntp.org every night.
Just before they sync, I can see a difference of 4 seconds between the two servers.
One of the servers seems to deviate from 4 seconds in 24 hours.
Is…

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LDAP sync with Outlook
I have a task to research the possibilities of LDAP as a centralized Address Book. I have setup a openLDAP on Debian 5.07. I managed to search the LDAP contacts from MS Outlook 2007 (with some drawbacks, like Outlook cant recognize street and…

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Mirrored Development Environment
I'd like to setup a mirrored development environment between my work computer and my computer at home somehow. We have SVN setup, so mirroring files isn't a big deal. I'm thinking more like virtual host configurations and database files. I could…

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Database redundancy, more than just daily
We're an online store and backups are made daily. The problem is that if our database is lose, we lose all database changes/orders that were made on our site that day. We're tossing around the idea of setting up a database instance on Amazon and…

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Publish/Synchronize 5GB Pictures Folder to Company Laptops
My users keep asking for the ability to have a local copy of our equipment pictures on their laptops. There is currently 5.2GB of data in that folder and it will continue to grow slowly over time. There is some chance that I will be able to reduce…

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Realtime file-level mirroring from local NTFS to network drive
We have some data collection machines running WinXP. After a new file is written, we would like to immediately copy the new file to network storage (a NetApp CIFS share) automagically.
We need realtime or near realtime copies generated (copy upon…

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Best solution for a mailing list based on a custom SQL Server database AND sync to Outlook?
This is really a two-part question but I'm writing them in the same question because there might be solutions that could handle both.
A customer has a custom LOB database based on MS SQL Server with customer data which we want to use as a basis for…

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How do you synchronize content between IIS Servers?
I just came across this utility that will sync IIS servers and was wondering what other software people are using?
http://www.iis.net/download/WebDeploy
The company I'm at uses a very old version of Content Management Server 2003 and I'm looking…

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Need a File Sharing and Syncing Solution
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The designers at our company need a solution to share and sync a folder containing images and other binary files e.g. photoshop, illustrator, flash files etc..
These files may or may not be nested
in sub folders
The total size of this…

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Finding a 'temporary filer holder' solution for centralising log files
We have a particular sub-platform with around 900 web-facing RHEL VMs (on ESXi 4U2 if that helps). Each VM runs a custom application that logs to a per-VM file, we don't want these logs to get very big as we want the VMs to be small. What we've been…

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