What would you use to copy files across the WAN
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I have 2 directories that I need copied form the fileserver at the main office to a NAS at each of the 3 remote offices.
We have no data storage at the remote offices except for the NAS. I have been using SyncToy but the amount of data is getting larger and I think I need to get smarter on this.Should I just script it with a powershell or xcopy script? Setup DFS? not sure what would be best at this point.
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Is this a Windows NAS? If not, RSYNC.
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There are rsync shells for Windows.
SyncToy and xcopy are deprecated in the wake of mature robocopy. Check its options, and get familiar with it (such as, /r, /w, /.mir, and its incremental job nature). More immediately, it handles larger jobs, longer paths, and a few other points which trip up the other two mentions. Been part of Windows Server since~2003 in the resource kit, and standard on Win7 (even Vista?). Can be stop gap until something else.
Robocopy is slick for the Windows world, but not a match for the venerable *nix program rsync.
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If the remote offices have servers that use the NAS as their storage, you might consider using Branchcache (built into Server 2012) at the remote offices. Otherwise I'd vote Robocopy or Rsync.
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Rsync if it's a Linux build. Otherwise, I second Nick on Robocopy.
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robocopy it is. 4 jobs running. 1 job puling in a new directory from site 3. 3 jobs push changes out to sites 2,3,4.
The Ubiquiti EdgeMax LITE has no problems pushing it out over the OpenVPN tunnels. pushing about 6mbps across them. I could get more but a daily offsite database backup is running right now also. When that completes the robocopy jobs will have the full 10mbps pipe.
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What NAS devices are they?
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Buffalo LinkStation Duo.
Was just something cheap to have a local storage pool to hold things that. Are being synchronized to technician laptops.
We stuck ISO's of common installed software on them too, but that does need to be there. -
@JaredBusch said:
Buffalo LinkStation Duo.
Was just something cheap to have a local storage pool to hold things that. Are being synchronized to technician laptops.
We stuck ISO's of common installed software on them too, but that does need to be there.Those are Linux. RSYNC will crush RoboCopy and be more reliable. Best delta algorithm available on the market. And the copy is done from the NAS, not from something attached to the NAS.
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Just pushing files from a windows server share out to them
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@JaredBusch oh, so the copy isn't NAS to NAS, but Windows to NAS?
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@scottalanmiller correct. looking up the thread here, i see i was not clear on that.
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Gotcha, then yeah, Robocopy is the obvious choice.
