Syncing NAS on the cheap

[igendreau]

So here's what I'd love to be able to do. Looking for any recommendations, including specific hardware if you have a strong lean towards something.

We have a main location with multiple satellite locations. I have 25 gigs of data that is updated monthly that I need to get to each location. Currently it's a 6 DVD set and a royal pain. What I'd like to do is:

1. Create images of the DVDs (using PowerISO or similar)
2. Save the images to a network attached storage device in the main location
3. Have that NAS sync to a similar or identical device in each of the satellite locations. Preferably on some kind of schedule, like "push this data to the other locations between 12am and 7am each day.

I don't want to just save to the cloud because the data is a 6 DVD install. It takes forever when the data is local, so the last thing I want is someone's day take up because their internet speed stinks where they are. I want that data local on their network so they can just fire up PowerISO, mount disk 1 and off they go.

Not sure what kind of capabilities are out there, but I'm looking for an inexpensive way to do this. Any thoughts?

 

[06yfz450ridr]

you can setup freefilesync and use sftp to sync to all the locations. do you currently have any nas'? I know synology has the backup software that will sync multiple nas remotely.


there are many ways you can do this. do you have vpns to these locations?

 

[boosted1g]

If you cant get a respectable upload speed I would instead suggest putting in the cloud (could be your own personal hosted server with a solid upload pipe. Then have the sites scheduled to sync the data over night (then they can run the software locally).

The reason for this is because the bottleneck is your upload speed. With doing sftp or vpn to your main site, all 6 sites are limited to your upload speed. If you only had 10mbps upload (which is faster then what is offered in most smaller cities/rural areas), it will take 6 hours to send 25GB of data.

 

[ss202sl]

Robocopy works as well. Just set up a script to update each location, and put the scripts in the job scheduler. I've used this several times to keep software repositories(at several locations) updates.