Cloud Storage

Solaris · 19 Dec 2012 at 12:03

That results in something called split brain. There are methods to avoid this.

http://www.gluster.org/2012/06/healing-split-brain/

You can use a feature called quorum to make sure that you can write to all copies of the data before the write is committed.

http://community.gluster.org/q/how-do-i-use-the-quorum-feature-to-prevent-split-brain/

Benihana · 19 Dec 2012 at 15:16

Thanks, looks like a good contender. Will see if I can install it and have a play.

J1nxy · 19 Dec 2012 at 22:29

Knew there was something else I'd come across when playing with DFS replication...

http://www.peersoftware.com/products/file-collaboration/peerlock.html

http://www.peersoftware.com/products/file-collaboration/peersync-collaboration-edition.html

This fixes the biggest problem with any of the replication tools, it locks all the replicas while somebody has it open which will generate the standard read only error message on files, avoiding split brain and the problems that causes when you have to unpick it.

Benihana · 20 Dec 2012 at 09:36

I've requested a trial of the above, seems like a good start to at least to get shares working between two locations, but then there will be the need to access data from anywhere. I'm also looking at AeroFS if anyone has any experience of that.

J1nxy · 20 Dec 2012 at 09:40

Consider standing yourself up a sharepoint site?

teaboy5 · 23 Dec 2012 at 16:40

Can't beat a company that wants more from IT, but wont put in the time and money to get the right product.

Have you went in and told them a good solution will cost £x amount and save them a lot of trouble in the long run?

midville · 9 Jan 2013 at 18:16

Has anyone using SkyDrive £32 for a year for 107Gb or is something like Carbonite Home / Home Plus the way forward. Ideally wanting something around £40 a year for my photo's and the odd few documents etc.

Thanks in advance

Lorddalron · 19 Jan 2013 at 23:41

How about Kim Dotcoms new Mega. The free account has 50gb of storage. Pro accounts have a very reasonable charge:

https://mega.co.nz/#pro