NSI DoubleTake is an enterprise-product for Windows.  It ain't cheap, but it can do much more than folder synchronization.

Hello Everyone!

 

Thanks for the recommendations!  I took a look at DoubleTake and even spoke to their support engineers about the synchronization issue.  Unfortunately, it doesn't do two way sync.  It's really a product that's used for disaster recovery and high availability.

 

I'll look into SyncToy and test it out.

 

All the best,

 

Heindrick

You will find out it has the same limitation as DoubleTake (great product)..two exact copies of directories, across a WAN have no way of maintaining write syncs, if the writes are committed at both ends. Best you can do is file replication, with no guarantee open files will be usable if the link is down.. database files would be the biggest problem.

 

 

Hello Everyone!

 

UPDATE: I've installed SyncToy in my lab between 1 Windows 2003 Standard Server and a client machine.  It looks like this is what I want.  However, the points illustrated above hold true (regarding simultaneous writes, etc.).

 

Luckilly for me, the folders in question aren't very dynamic and they just hold Office documents (Word, Excel and Powerpoint).

 

Many thanks to the people who pointed it out.  We'll be looking to bringing in Double Take as well.

 

All the best,

 

Heindrick

With just Word an Excel files, you should have the minimum of problems, other then dealing with open files. Hope it works out.