We have Novell Netware 5 servers servicing our file and print services. There is data needs to be syncronized between servers at different sites. I am aware that Novell can do this with their replication services but the Novell techs at our site arehesitant to install it as they have enough work looking after what is already there. They also don’t want to put any more load on the Netware servers.
At the moment we are getting around the problem with DOS batch files and various other cusomized scripts (including an old Qbasic program I wrote) that we run from an NT workstation with mapped novell drives. The problem I have is that they’re not that efficient and they don’t always do everything they should ie. with syncronisation you only want to copy modified files and you want to delete files on the destination that aren’t on the source – this can involve some intelligent programming.
I’ve searched on the net for various utilities / scripts / programs that will do the job but haven’t successfully found anything that is better than what I already have. There was one utility I tried that seemed good but didn’t do everything it said it was doing.
Does anyone have a way / program / script (ie. vbscript) / suggestion that willdo it better?
Thanks,
Mike.