Well I've been through mergers, and I feel your pain. It sounds like you're the Sys Admin. unfortunately both companies information isn't magickally going to appear the way they want it. I would still use those tools and maybe present to your boss/es that you won't have any down time during business hours in this conversion IF we can do this. I want to start with 45 days, maybe 30 of informaton, build that up so it's production ready. Once that machine/s is ready convert everyone over to the new servers. Then in a metric that is reasonable to your boss bring in data in 2-4 week increments until it is all online. Maybe it's not a matter of getting a new tool/s because it sounds like you have them. Break the elephant down in bite size chunks that won't cripple work hours and the conversion can be managed and hopefully because it is more organized, etc it lowers the bottom line in some measureable way. Maybe you will get to go shopping for some new machines and or periphials that weren't around when this system was orignally designed but would increase reliability, up time, data integrity, etc Hey and I could be all wrong in this possible "out of the box" solution. VP On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:11, Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> wrote: > Got them both, as well as CVS. But that would mean that we'll be building > on both sites. We have millions of lines of code. A build can take hours, > and we don't have resources to do that on both sides. > > Thanks for trying. > > --- > Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those > 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," > Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, > (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis > > > ________________________________ > From: gm5729 <gm5729 at gmail.com> > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 10:51:45 AM > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] GFS over a WAN > > Sounds like you need GIT or SVN for revision control, and > accountability/trackability of changes. > > > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:29, Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> wrote: >> Our company was just acquired by one in TX. We are now in the position of >> having to keep a local and remote linux (Centos54) file servers synced up. >> We have an automated build process that spits out about a 4GB build every >> night or even more often at times. This is now being done on the >> corporate >> network. We have local test facilities that use these builds, as well as >> corporate facilities that need access to our local resources. It's all >> getting to be pretty messy. >> >> We are trying to keep the file servers synced up using rsync. >> Unfortunately >> sometime it takes a while for this huge amount of data to be synced up, or >> worse, someone makes a change to the local server's files, which gets >> overwritten on the next rsync. >> >> I was wondering if there was a way to create a common file system between >> both sites (here in MN and TX). GFS sounds like it might work, but I have >> not found anyone who claims to have done this on Google. I remember there >> use to be AFS which worked in a similar fashion. >> >> Guess I'm hoping to set something up where files will exist on both >> networks. When a file is opened, the network compares the local and >> remote >> file systems and the newest version is used. If the remote is the newest, >> it's transferred to the local as it is used so the local cache is updated >> and the next use will be entirely local. Am I dreaming? >> >> Anyone have any ideas? >> >> Thanks. >> >> --- >> Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those >> 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," >> Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, >> (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > > -- > -- > If there is a question to the validity of this email please phone for > validation. Proudly presented by Mutt, GNUPG, Vi/m and GNU/Linux via > CopyLeft. GNU/Linux is about Freedom to compute as you want and need > to, and share your work unencumbered and have others do the same with > you. 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