What would you use to copy files across the WAN
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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.
