Solution Needed for Site to Site copy

[DotNetNewbie]

Hi,

I just wanted to pick everyone's brain. We have recently opened a satellite office with approximately 6 users.

All their daily files are held locally on a local server (2008 R2).

The link is a 10Mb fibre connection and I would like to somehow copy their files onto a remote server (2008 R2) so it can be added to the backup.

I could just buy another license for my backup program, but I am interested to see if there are any alternatives.

Any and all ideas welcome.

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[pagy]

How about using DFS??

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(WS.10).aspx

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[58sniper]

I'll second using DFS. Very nice. And free.

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[DotNetNewbie]

Hi,

Thanks for the tips, I will look into DFS, is there anything I need to be aware of, any traps people fall into when using it?

Many thanks in advance.

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[biglebowski]

Have you looked at synctoy it can copy changes or echo a directory.

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[58sniper]

DFS is realtime multi-master syncronization that supports bandwidth throttling, time schedules, file filtering, etc.

If you use it for network drive mappings, users will always connect to the DFS source in their site (assuming there is one).

It also only copies the delta data when files are changed. This saves a lot of bandwidth.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[DotNetNewbie]

Hi,

I ran a test last night with DFS Replication - didn't use the namespace as I don't need that functionality.

I used a custom schedule and it worked exactly as I needed it too.

Many thanks for everyone's time and suggestion - I knew I could count on Tek-Tips

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