File services sync between two locations

Hello,
I have a situation where we have two locations - office and datacenter.
At the moment, we have snow leopard server running in the office doing the usual bits and pieces. We have a lot of users that work from home, so we have put another snow leopard server in to our datacenter.
What I want to achieve is for both servers to sync the data shares - this is fine, can do that by rsync.
The main problem, is that I want home workers, or anyone connected to our VPN outside of the office to use the datacenter server, rather than pulling files from the office.
I have read about ip failover etc, but this doesn't help, as I want both servers to run simultaneously, and they are on different subnets.
I thought about using DNS for this.
Eg if I have two servers - server01 and server02.company.com, I would create a dns record for files.company.com which would resolve to the relevant server, and anyone in the office would pick up the office server ip as we host dns internally, and anyone outside the office would pick up the datacenter ip as they would see the public dns.
I know I could have two lots of shares configured on our employees computers, but it would be slick if I could avoid that and use one mapping.
Is this a viable option, or does anyone have any better ideas?
Thanks

Any ideas anyone?

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