Comments on: Sync WHS

By: Jamz Yaneza

Jamz Yaneza — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:55:34 +0000

@Criag: There’s now a better tool called RichCopy that replaces RoboCopy. Testing this right now on my newly built Scaleo WHS. Get it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx

Also, it would be a better idea to use mapped drives instead of directly referencing the folder structure in your example. At least, thats how I’m doing it right now. :-)

By: Criag Hilliard

Criag Hilliard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:23:10 +0000

Has anyone had problem with Robocopy not copying files in the top level of WHS shares. Mine will not copy any files that are located in d:\shares\music or d:\shares\videos… Files and sub-folders under these will copy just not files in top level of each share. Here’s options i’ve used.
robocopy.exe d:\shares \\other-server\e$\HPServer\d\shares /MIR /XJ /ZB /COPY:DAT /R:0 /W:0 /LOG+:\\other-SERVER\e\BACKUP.LOG /NP /TEE
also tried it like this
robocopy.exe \\HPServer\d$\shares \\other-server\e$\HPServer\d\shares /MIR /XJ /ZB /COPY:DAT /R:0 /W:0 /LOG+:\\other-SERVER\e\BACKUP.LOG /NP /TEE
I get same results from both methods. The backup log shows that robocopy sees the files in top level of shares, but just doesn’t copy.
3 d:\shares\Music\
76 d:\shares\Videos\
These 3 files in music and 76 files in videos are not in target.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:28:12 +0000

Hi To Krohn, I personally back up to BlueHost.com via F T P. They give you 1,500 GB of storage space for approx. $7 per month, which is allowed to be used for backup purposes. You can backup the files and sync using either Second Copy or other software. See here for setup details.

By: To Krohn

To Krohn — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:00:35 +0000

Bob and Philip,
A friend and I are looking to take advantage of each of having a WHS. We are looking for automatic offsite backup. We have explored Amazon’s S3 model and it would work. But why not take advantage of our latent bandwidth in the night on our broadband connections and have his WHS backup mine, and mine his. 100G each would hit the critical files.

We are just entering into this and are looking for synchronization options. We’ll probably do a bulk load via USB drive and then have incremental syncs be done over the internet. We’ll see how it goes, but if you have ideas on sync architecture and tools, I’d be grateful for some info.

Tom

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:14:05 +0000

Hi Bob Crook,
Two home servers. Now that would be nice.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:09:59 +0000

Hi Josh, I have my copy of SyncToy installed on the server. An add-in for WHS implementing SyncToy will be available shortly.

By: Bob Crook

Bob Crook — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:02:04 +0000

Now wouldn’t this be nice if one had two WHS servers and one could sync between them, and across the Internet?

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:52:19 +0000

Hello,

Do you have this installed on the client computer or WHS? Which way would be preferred? I assume this is not a add-in.

Josh