Re: Directory Sync

rs_arwar@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
We have two Iomega P800 NAS servers running cut down edition of Windows
2000 server. Both have dual 2.4GHz and 1GB RAM each.

Server A is online and has 1TB capacity. Approx. 300GB of the storage
is currently occupied. This server is used to store customer files. We
regularly backup this server to the tape media.

Server B is identical in configuration to sever A. Even though we take
the backups, we would like to bring server B online and use it as a
mirror of server A. Basically we want to copy all the stuff from server
A to server B and then regularly sync it.

We have tried assortment of utilities to do a fast sync e.g. xcopy,
robocopy, Allway Sync etc but none seems like to be upto the task. The
reason is that the total number of files in all directories is more
then 1 million. Some files are buried deep inside several layers of
sub-directories which renders some utlities like robocopy useless
because the filename exceeds 260 bytes.

Can someone please recommend a utility (preferrably a free/shareware
command line) that can efficiently do this sort of job.



Not free, but RepliStor from EMC/Legato should do this sort of thing. Not sure how much it costs. I believe this product works at the disk IO level rather than the file level.

http://www.legato.com/products/replistor/

I see they have a PDF document comparing this product and DoubleTake which was also mentioned in this thread.

Jon
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