Does WANdisco provide any tools that verify that SCM repositories are in sync over the WAN?
Ans. Yes. WANdisco provides tools for CVS and CVSNT (fast-cvsroot-diff) and Subversion (fast-svn-diff) that are available for download from the support site. These tools will show the files that are different between repository replicas. These tools are also optimized for WAN performance, so that gigabytes of data can be compared in minutes over even a slow WAN link. The user can take a snapshot of the state of their repositories across all of their development sites, and obtain a report identifying any files that are different between their repositories. The WANdisco replicator also has an internal mechanism that allows it to automatically detect any out of sync files between the repositories. This protection is always on when the WANdisco replicators are running. This will also catch operational errors, such as permissions not being the same at all the sites, accidental deletion of RCS v files in the case of CVS, or disk corruption at any of the sites. If an out of sync condition is
