Question RSync Alternative for windows that works

[annettia]

Hello IT Pros, I manage many linux boxes but we acquired a company that has windows servers and we need to transfer data from these servers to our windows servers across a site to site VPN. I was trying to find a good working solution to copy 100+TB over. I have been using Robocopy but it is super slow (I think due to latency with SMB) based on my research. Is there some sort of RSYNC for windows.... The normal rsync for windows that I have seen has been very hard to get it to work.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Since you obviously have the Linux side of things worked out why not just load up something like Ubuntu in a VM on a server and perform the copy?

Though 100TB is going to take a LONG time no matter what tool you use. Especially through a VPN tunnel.

 

[njuser66]

We have run into similar scenario, the difference is I am no Linux expert but have always seen how Linux administrators swear by Rsync... I ran into something similar to copy massive amount of data across windows servers and ended up using a software solution called gs richcopy enterprise. It behaves the same way as Rsync (to my understanding). You install a client on the source and an agent onto the destination. Then the data is transferred over a single TCP port between the two. It is multichanneled so you still get multi threading. They call it RTA. It can do bytle level replication and compress files while in transit which is very sweet.. It is not a free software but it is not expensive either.

 

[annettia]

Since you obviously have the Linux side of things worked out why not just load up something like Ubuntu in a VM on a server and perform the copy?

Though 100TB is going to take a LONG time no matter what tool you use. Especially through a VPN tunnel.

good idea and we already thought the same idea

 

[annettia]

We have run into similar scenario, the difference is I am no Linux expert but have always seen how Linux administrators swear by Rsync... I ran into something similar to copy massive amount of data across windows servers and ended up using a software solution called gs richcopy enterprise. It behaves the same way as Rsync (to my understanding). You install a client on the source and an agent onto the destination. Then the data is transferred over a single TCP port between the two. It is multichanneled so you still get multi threading. They call it RTA. It can do bytle level replication and compress files while in transit which is very sweet.. It is not a free software but it is not expensive either.

I already sent a message to Gs Richcopy to ask about if they can help