Recently I was assigned the task to find a solution for our users to be able to synchronize their files on their computers regardless if they are on the network or traveling. one of the main reasons that a offline file synchronization solution is needed in our organization is that many traveling staff lose their equipment, get the computer stolen and sometimes hard drive failures. these people rarely come to our network, so they save all their files locally on their hard drive, many of them do regular back-ups, but most of them don’t.
I was after a solution that would give us total control over the software, and storage location. our staff data is private, so we want to host the data, and have total access to it if need to. one of the problems we could have with this setup is bandwidth limitation. we have a good internet bandwidth connection, but having 200 users synching their files is a huge data traffic, so I needed to find a software with a good synch protocol that only synch up with the server when files have been modified, or new files are put into the directory.
I know Dropbox and other cool synch programs out of there have these options, but don’t allow to host the data ourselves.
On the next post I will go through some programs I found promising, but did not meet our criterions. till then.
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You can try offline files I think check http://offlinefiles.blogspot.com/2009/11/laptop-d…