Very simple setup. 2 brand new EX4 16 TB boxes connected to 100% gigabit LAN, same subnet, no vLan, each have static LAN IP address.
Box EX4_0 has 1 share named \backup, roughly 3 TB of data.
Box EX4_1 has 1 share named \offsiteBackup, it’s completly empty.
I ran a “remote backup” from EX4_0 to EX4_1 so that all 3TB of data would initially be copied over the LAN. I thought it was unescessary to copy the initial remote backup over a 20 Mbps down/up internet connection if it could be done over the LAN first.
It’s been almost 96 hours and the remote backup status of EX4_0 says “52%” !!!
To make matters worse:
-I’m now realizing that remote backups cannot be edited
-So when EX4_1 is moved offsite I will have to edit the remote backup on EX4_0 because the IP address of the target backup server will obivously change
-I’m guessing that deleting existing/adding new remote backup on EX4_0 will likely cause it to “not regognize” any previouly backed up data
-So, all the data will have to be re-copied over the internet to the remote EX4_1 again…this time at 20 Mbps, which I’m guessing could take 3+ weeks
yikes!
If this is as good as it gets, why didn’t I just buy a barebones rackmount Xeon quad core Dell, build a 4 drive RAID array, and setup openVPN client connection to our existing openVPN server and cron a simple rsync job?
Price would have likely been cheaper. I was expecting a fancy out of the box solution, shame on me.
