Disk mirroring over a network

[DougK62]

In my office I have three computers that are hooked up to our ~15 computer LAN with a T1. One is a webserver, one is a file server, and the other is my work computer. What I would like to do is have BOTH the file and web servers mirrored onto a single hard drive on my work computer. This would be a removable IDE hard drive that would be taken home with the boss every night. When I say mirrored, I mean that when a file is changed on the file or web servers that that file on the removable hard drive on my work computer will also be updated - so files are backed up automatically instead of me having to do it manually. This is how we want to keep a full backup of all of our data. Can anyone suggest some software to do this for me? Or maybe a good webpage/book where I can read about such things? Thanks for the help.

 

[joey2k]

I use rsync. It's possible to run it on Windows too.

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Quick introduction and tutorial
http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/

-- Joel

 

[cmetz]

rsync is good. There's also a Windows port floating around if you need that, and rsync will run over OpenSSH.

 

[skyking]

What are the Os's on the servers? If they are a bsd/unix, you can write a script that will do it.

 

[azev]

how about Distributed File System (DFS) ??? WIN2K server...