eastowners

I’m excited. I’ve been trying to tackle the problem of providing a near-online storage solution for an application that stores its data in a very specific data structure and saves it via FTP. Sure… there are plenty of applications out there that will automate this for and leave tidy little pointers on the real file system so your application is none the wiser.

My budget, unfortunately, is not such that I could take that approach.

What I found is an FTP server from a company called Gene6 that provides the ability to create a virtual file system (VFS) out of a merge of several directories. More info here : http://www.g6ftpserver.com/manuals/en/vfs.html .

Next, will come testing of the concept, but this should allow us to move (behind the scenes) data to a less expensive disk media and still have the files accessible by the application in the same “spot” they’ve always been in. This is really cool stuff and I hope it works the way I think it will. Stay tuned…