There are so many FTP mirroring programs – which should I use? 
 
I have 2 WebDAV servers (one of which also runs FTP services on the
same share) that I really rely on.  These are not my servers, but
accounts on shared co-located servers which I pay premium prices for. 
 I use one for graphics and one for stuff like MS office documents.  I
use them as a central place to store stuff when collaborating with
others.
 
In order to get to my files fast, I have been mirroring these shares
onto 2 of my small file servers in my office (a windows XP Pro
computer and a MacOSX computer, both act as servers for our few Macs
and PCs).
 
One the Mac 
On the Mac, I manually mount the graphics WebDAV share onto the
desktop, and use a killer program called TriBackup to mirror it to a
local folder that is shared .  It is a real drag to have to mount the
webdav share.
 
On Widows XP 
One my XP box, I havn’t found something as cool as TriBackup, and I
don’t want to have to mount webdav shares.   There are tons of
programs (like WS FTP) that do mirroring.
 
Any ideas on a webdav compatible PC apps for Win XP to do my
replicating.   I want to set it to check every 3 minutes.   If someone
else from the remote group edits a file, I want to see that file get
updated in the mirror ASAP.
 
 
-Sherpa Jay

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Request for Question Clarification by voyager-ga on 28 Sep 2002 04:49 PDT

Hi sherpaj,

there are a lot of ways to do what you want. Could you please specify
if you want:

a) the fastest and easiest to implement solution (native to XP), which
might not so good in the long run.
b) a solution that is medium in implementation difficulty but
definitely capable of doing what you want and more in the long run.
(Would it be a problem for you if the solution runs on a unix base -
on top of XP?)
c) would you even be willing to spend some money and buy a small
server that is only responsible for mirroring and serving those files
24/7 ? (I'm doing something like that with an old 486SX notebook and a
big internal HD running Linux at home)?

Oh and one last question: Does it really have to be able to work with
the WebDav side, if all you practically want is an ftp mirror?

voyager-ga