Rsync local then move dataset offsite.
Hello experts,
Not sure I worded the title correctly but here's what I'm looking to do.
I need to Rsync a couple of our offices back to our main office. All of the offices are running a mixture of windows server 2003/2008.
However the satellite offices house upwards of 100+gigs each, and would take far too long to do over the internet.
How would I rsync to a local USB drive onsite then take it back to our main office to copy to the nas and then set the remote offices to do incremental backups nightly?
Not sure I worded the title correctly but here's what I'm looking to do.
I need to Rsync a couple of our offices back to our main office. All of the offices are running a mixture of windows server 2003/2008.
However the satellite offices house upwards of 100+gigs each, and would take far too long to do over the internet.
How would I rsync to a local USB drive onsite then take it back to our main office to copy to the nas and then set the remote offices to do incremental backups nightly?
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I forgot to mention that a lot of the data is archived / or just used for reference so the data being added/changed nightly is small.
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http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/how-rsync-works.html
Have you looked at/considered setting up a DFS/with DFS replication (requires win2k3 R2 or newer) share such that newly added documents at the satelite will automatically be sent up to the main office in a HUB/spoke central record. You could also configure the push of those files to the the other locations. i.e. Office A adds a document and gets pushed up to Main office and then pushed down to the other offices b,c,d,e,etc.
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Thank you all for your help on this!
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In my mind I see this happening like this.
For the initial backup I drive to the remote offices and do backup onsite an external hard drive.
I bring the hard drive back to the main office and dump it into the NAS.
The remote office is then setup to Rsync over SSH to the NAS incrementally nightly. Maybe 50-100MB of changes nightly.
I've got everything figured out with the exception of how to do the dump onsite at the remote office. Does Rsync need some kind of file list or can I just copy/paste the files to the external drive and rsync will just recognize the data when it goes to do its first backup?