Novell's iFolder

One of the oft overlooked tools in the Novell collection is iFolder. This little tool can be installed as part of a NetWare installation or downloaded separately and installed onto Linux.

I'm not sure of the exact licensing but I think iFolder may be a freebie if you get it from the spin-off http://www.ifolder.com website

iFolder is a simple tool that via a client installation allows you to point to a network folder and synchronize it down to your PC. When on the network the sync is in the background and when off the network it's accessible it simply re-syncs everything.

Overall, it's a very simple sync tool that you can plug into an existing network and it just works. iFolder 2 which is the version that comes with NetWare supports encryption where as iFolder 3 which is available for download from the above weblink DOES NOT support encryption.

There are other solutions out there that will do a lot more and are much more configurable - Connected Data Protector springs to mind and this application has quite powerful features as well as strong encryption.

Either way, iFolder is a nice little tool and even better that it's free to download and use. Next week I plan on trying out iFolder 3 on my test network to see how 'easy' it is to get it up and running on Linux.