rsync - Nov 2008 - synchronization for many notebooks

Hello,

I'm wondering if Rsync could be used for the following?

500 Notebooks, all users have a local directory where they work on
files, but they also use other workstations on the network and access
there files from the server.

So what I would like to do is have rsync running on the notebooks, but
syncing the files according to date.  Also, is there a way for the
notebook to "monitor" the local directory so when they save a file on
there notebook that it gets sent immediately to the mapped drive on
the server?

Thanks,
Dan.

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 10:59 -0600, Dan Letkeman wrote:
> I'm wondering if Rsync could be used for the following?
> 
> 500 Notebooks, all users have a local directory where they work on
> files, but they also use other workstations on the network and access
> there files from the server.
> 
> So what I would like to do is have rsync running on the notebooks, but
> syncing the files according to date.  Also, is there a way for the
> notebook to "monitor" the local directory so when they save a
file on
> there notebook that it gets sent immediately to the mapped drive on
> the server?
Rsync is primarily a one-way copying tool.  You would probably be better
served by a two-way synchronization tool such as Unison or, if immediate
updates are important, a full-blown network filesystem.

Matt