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Grant/James, Thanks for the suggestions and I shall give them a try. Another way I thought of possibly achieving this would be to have the 'Master' Directory as a Symbolic link which I can switch between the Mounted and Local Drives as I go on and off line and then use Unison to do the Syncing between the two. Going your route or mine the other issue is how I can do this automatically when the Network becomes available/unavailable (I'm thinking Run Levels here possibly?). Regards, Dave. -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gsewell Sent: 23 May 2009 10:40 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] Offline Files in Linux On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:48:20 +0100, James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dave wrote: > >> I may be missing the blindingly obvious here (probably!) but the one > feature >> I do like in Windoze in Offline Files (although you have to pay an arm > and a >> leg to get a Version which supports it). >> >> I know that it is simply a cache of files which are copied off the > Network >> before close down but it is the seamless facility of having a particular >> drive and its files available when you are not connected to the Network >> (thinking of Laptops here by the way). >> >> Is there a way to replicate this functionality in Linux? - I am aware of >> Synching tools such as RSync but not sure that quite fits since wouldn't > the >> drive be different when offline? > > unison? http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ > > James Unison is very good, but it doesn't really provide an "offline files" experience. (Look Ma, I can use Microsoft speak!). Since, under Linux, when you access a remote share (be it SMB, NFS or AFS) it has to be mounted and given a local directory (/mnt/server1/share, for example), you could always run one of these sync programs (such as the above mentioned Unison) and then move the sync'd files to the original mountpoint. That way they would be in the same place regardless of whether you were accessing them directly or remotely. Just remember to move them back out before you sync the other way - you can access the files in a given directory if you're going to be mounting something there as well (or are you going to go down the route of unionfs?) Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html