Multiple PC WAN File sync for WHS that isnt $900

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Adidas4275

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has anyone found a good, reliable and reasonably priced file syncing program that doesnt cost an arm and a leg.

I like dropbox but from my understanding it will only work with files that in the "dropbox" folder and I do not want to redo my complete folder setup on my PCs and WHS

also I would like PC and MAC compatibility.

I would have thought this would have been a no brainer but i cannot find something that works like i think it should and run on WHS... being server 2003 many of the "home" products do not run and require the "pro" or $900 version of the program to run


thanks for the input
 
When you find it, let me know. So far there isn't anything that has been released for WHS (that I know of) for whatever reason. Apparently the companies don't see much demand for whatever reason.

I know that Carbonite has released a "Pro" version that supports multiple systems, but still no WHS from my understanding.
 
really crashplan works well with WHS and will do live syncing between my WHS, my notebook, my wifes notebook and my gaming PC?

ill look into it.

synctoy is err lame...... it is not a good fit for notebooks as it has to be scheduled and who knows when the notebook is at home... also with out a VPN it will not work WAN
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update

crashplan will not work, due to the fact that you cannot add network paths as a target for backups... BOO!

if you use D:shares it will corrupt data if you have multiple drives in the DE

damn, i got my hopes up
 
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Why do you need to make the target a network path? Just install Crashplan on WHS and the labtop, then chose to backup the labtop to the whs. Or am im missing something?
 
I'm guessing he wants something that will backup the WHS shares "offsite". Backing up laptops/PCs to a WHS is all fine and good, but some of us would like options to backup important files from the WHS system to an online/offsite location. Currently, I backup my critical stuff (photos, documents, etc.) monthly to an external 500 GB 2.5" drive that I take to work. It works... but it would be nicer to be able to automatically backup to something like Carbonite or other online backup providers.
 
yes you are missing the fact that I want file sync between the WHS and all PCs I own.... not just backup...

why would i need crashplan to backup client PCs to the WHS when it does this already natively?

as for network shares... if you use D:/shares you will/can cause data corruption becuase of the DE and tombstones that are setup and therefore you need to do all file transfers though the \\whs\ path

I am looking for real time file sync between WHS and client PCs: notebooks (mac and PC) and desktops)


I can find many that work with normal PCs but none that work with network shares... for WHS
 
Adidas4275 said:
yes you are missing the fact that I want file sync between the WHS and all PCs I own.... not just backup...

why would i need crashplan to backup client PCs to the WHS when it does this already natively?

as for network shares... if you use D:/shares you will/can cause data corruption becuase of the DE and tombstones that are setup and therefore you need to do all file transfers though the \\whs\ path

I am looking for real time file sync between WHS and client PCs: notebooks (mac and PC) and desktops)


I can find many that work with normal PCs but none that work with network shares... for WHS
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Are all of your files you are looking to sync in central locations? IE. My Documents

If they are you can use Dropbox, which is free. I know its not a idea solution but it works. It also syncs them on the internet so you can you get to the files if you don't have your PC. I know I saw a way to add files that are not in the dropbox folder on lifehacker.com before.

They also made it so that if you are on the LAN it will sync that way rather then using the WAN. It will also still upload the the internet. But if you have 5 PCs at home, you will only upload them to the internet, and the rest of the PCs will sync them over the LAN.
 
syncplicity seems to have some of what I want.... and so does dropbox, i will try and find the lifehacker post on how to add folders that are not in the dropbox
 
I used unison for a while to keep multiple Linux FS in sync. It also works on windows.
 
I used to use that unison on windows and linux but gave up because it required me to break up my large archives into smaller parts for performance reasons. Is this any better now?
 
nitrobass24 said:
Adidas

Dropbox would work well
All you have to do on your WHS is login as Admin and create a new shared folder D:/DE/Shares/ this way you have all your shared folders in there.

Also could looks at Windows Live Mesh
https://www.mesh.com/welcome/default.aspx
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I could be wrong but doesn't using the d: path cause data corruption do to the DE?

If not I will use livesync as it does what I need, but I have read usin the d: path can cause corruption.
 
Adidas4275 said:
I could be wrong but doesn't using the d: path cause data corruption do to the DE?

If not I will use livesync as it does what I need, but I have read usin the d: path can cause corruption.
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Not if you go through D:\Shares
Its when you go through D:\DE Folders that things get messed up.
Right now all you shares are mapped to D:\Shares
 
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eagleknight said:
Ok... so does Crashplan work or not? If you are pointing is to D:\Shares how would that cause a corruption problem?
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I dont use crashplan. I dont know if it works or not.

What i am saying is on WHS all your Shared folders \\WHS\Software\....\\WHS\Vidoes is mapped to D:\Shares\Software....D:\shares\videos and so on.
Thus by using D:\Shares is no different than using the UNC path
 
i installed syncplicity and it is works as per nitros recommendation.

we will wait to see if i get corruption, but the home version of syncplicity works on WHS... and it will install on mac and pc, works for me. the cost for 50gb is a little much, i am on the 2gb version right now for free.
 
drescherjm said:
I used to use that unison on windows and linux but gave up because it required me to break up my large archives into smaller parts for performance reasons. Is this any better now?
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I've never heard of this and I've used Unison quite a bit, though not with many files larger than 2GB or so. Can't find any reference in the manual either, can you clarify?

rsync definitely works properly, and can also be used on Windows.
 
Legit way to torrent
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Interesting. Although I know one of my use most important cases for this will be squashed by the network security. I would expect to get shut off very quickly if I started running bit torrent between a hospital and our research facility.
 
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keenan said:
I've never heard of this and I've used Unison quite a bit, though not with many files larger than 2GB or so. Can't find any reference in the manual either, can you clarify?

rsync definitely works properly, and can also be used on Windows.
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I think the problem was my data sets included hundreds of thousands of files.
 
drescherjm said:
Interesting. Although I know one of my use most important cases for this will be squashed by the network security. I would expect to get shut off very quickly if I started running bit torrent between a hospital and our research facility.
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From what I can see from what I am reading (http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/16410-bittorrent-sync-faq/) it's not much different in terms of security than running with rsync. I would bet if you wrote up the entire workflow and everything on how a file was handled from start to finish it would pass most corporate security standards. Basically the transport is encrypted just like any other "WAN based" solution would.

Granted the Firewall guys are going to throw a fit when you say you are going leverage bittorrent to replicate data...
 
Granted the Firewall guys are going to throw a fit when you say you are going leverage bittorrent to replicate data...
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That is where I would get in trouble. They monitor bittorrent traffic.
 
Depending on how they monitor it, and showing the actual cost savings they probably could exclude certain hosts from their throttling/monitoring.
 
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