Hi
I will soon be buying my first NAS. I'm looking to use it to store all my music files as well as my data files, but it will not be accessible from the internet (not after reading how outdated and insecure the servers/clients embedded in most NASs are. Also the I'll probably be buying (the RipServer from Ripfactory) doesn't have all these fancy features like "download station" and web server etc. However, it has native support for squeezeboxes, two drive support (in RAID 1) and an embedded CD drive for automated high quality CD ripping.
So, I have a stationary PC I use for gaming and heavier use while my girl friend has a laptop that we use for web surfing etc. around the appartment.
The music files will only be located on the NAS, but I'm not sure about the data files:
I've looked into using the built-in offline folders functionality in windows, but as the computers will always have access to the NAS, they will always be accessing the files over network. This might not be a problem for the the stationary, but the laptop is a trusty old R50 thinkpad, and it only has 802.11b built-in. I might change it 802.11g mini-PCI card, but even then it would not be as fast as I would like.
I've therefore looked into using the free SyncToy from Microsoft as it will perform the synchronize once and then work on a local copy. It looks to be what I need, but as I would like to synchronize both when a user logs on and when he/she logs off, it won't work (at least I haven't been able to configure the Windows XP scheduler to run a task both when logging on and off).
Also, I have a concern about multiple edits of a file: What if someone edits a file on the laptop without knowing it is being edited on the stationary. When syncing with the NAS there will be two different versions requiring some sort of manual intervention to resolve it - just like when trying to merge non-text files with a versioning system. I haven't had time to play around with SyncToy to see how it reacts to this.
The question is then (and please excuse the long introduction 🙂): What synchronization tool will do the job of synchronizing both on logon and logoff? How will they handle the versioning problem described above?
Thanks in advance
I will soon be buying my first NAS. I'm looking to use it to store all my music files as well as my data files, but it will not be accessible from the internet (not after reading how outdated and insecure the servers/clients embedded in most NASs are. Also the I'll probably be buying (the RipServer from Ripfactory) doesn't have all these fancy features like "download station" and web server etc. However, it has native support for squeezeboxes, two drive support (in RAID 1) and an embedded CD drive for automated high quality CD ripping.
So, I have a stationary PC I use for gaming and heavier use while my girl friend has a laptop that we use for web surfing etc. around the appartment.
The music files will only be located on the NAS, but I'm not sure about the data files:
I've looked into using the built-in offline folders functionality in windows, but as the computers will always have access to the NAS, they will always be accessing the files over network. This might not be a problem for the the stationary, but the laptop is a trusty old R50 thinkpad, and it only has 802.11b built-in. I might change it 802.11g mini-PCI card, but even then it would not be as fast as I would like.
I've therefore looked into using the free SyncToy from Microsoft as it will perform the synchronize once and then work on a local copy. It looks to be what I need, but as I would like to synchronize both when a user logs on and when he/she logs off, it won't work (at least I haven't been able to configure the Windows XP scheduler to run a task both when logging on and off).
Also, I have a concern about multiple edits of a file: What if someone edits a file on the laptop without knowing it is being edited on the stationary. When syncing with the NAS there will be two different versions requiring some sort of manual intervention to resolve it - just like when trying to merge non-text files with a versioning system. I haven't had time to play around with SyncToy to see how it reacts to this.
The question is then (and please excuse the long introduction 🙂): What synchronization tool will do the job of synchronizing both on logon and logoff? How will they handle the versioning problem described above?
Thanks in advance
