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bjesus

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 55

Great network filesystem?

Hey!

This isn't exactly an Arch question, but I trust you guys so I'm asking it here

I got two Linux servers on my two different houses, both are connected to the internet. On both I have a big (~150GB) media directory containing mostly music files, from which I'm playing my music when I'm at each one of the houses.

Thing is - they are not automatically synchronized. I'm running rsync every once in a while, but I'm thinking - why not use some network file system to automatically mirror them?

Basically, I want that when I remove (or update) a file on one of my servers - it will be removed (or updated) on the other one, too. And when I add a file, I want the FS to automatically create that file on the other server. I want my FS to mirror each other, but I don't want a master server and I want each one of them to be available locally if there's some network issue. And, of course, since the data is transfers over the internet I need it to be encrypted (maybe over ssh?).

There are quite a few complicated and less complicated FSs that seem to do what  I want. s anyone experienced with some and can recommend me of something?

Thank you!

Sin.citadel

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 267

Re: Great network filesystem?

you can use sshfs to connect both servers together. check this for your mirroring http://crablfs.sourceforge.net/#ru_data_man

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,237

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Re: Great network filesystem?

drdb perhaps? Not sure about the encryption though, you might need to tunnel it over a VPN.

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