Repliaction software ?

Snow-Munki · 27 Feb 2012 at 17:15

Hi,

Looking for a Server 2008 R2 compatible replication software, which can copy files across as soon as it detects a change.

We are using DFS at the moment but the replication just isn't working well at all.

all the ones i've seen ( Robocopy / Beyond Compare etc ) all need to be scheduled to run at certain times of the day,

Thanks,

ruffneck · 27 Feb 2012 at 17:37

DFS-R works fine for us, what problems are you having?

Yamahahahahaha · 27 Feb 2012 at 20:40

DFSR is quite sensitive to poorly configured DNS / improperly homed servers.

Apart from that, it will replicate just about everything in real time given enough bandwidth.

mole90 · 1 Mar 2012 at 21:44

We use http://www.inmage.com/products/Scout.html to replicate 1 million+ small files (about 1.4TB). It also tracks all the changes during replication so you can view a point in time snapshot.

DFSR is brilliant when it 'just works'...but when it doesn't then its a real pain to work out what its doing due to the lack of gui or anything other than event log entries.

nrh1703 · 1 Mar 2012 at 22:50

dfsr can be memory and cpu intensive as well as needing adequately sized staging areas. if not configured correctly you'll run into trouble but as has been said, when done right it is great.

the [ms] active directory team blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/) has lots of posts about dfs; config, troublshooting etc. definitely worth a read.

kippermitten · 6 Mar 2012 at 17:12

Robocopy can monitor using the /MON: switch, ive used this in plenty of scenarios for CDP cheap-as-chips stylee.

http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html < ace source!

Theres also a nice GUI too:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx

Cheers,

P.