#ARRSYNC REVIEW MAC OS#
#ARRSYNC REVIEW MAC#

Apologies in advance if this has ended up in the wrong section of the forum, hoping someone could point me in the right direction.Rsync is a lightweight open-source utility, provides fast incremental file transfer with multiple options that you can call from the console.

#ARRSYNC REVIEW MAC#

We are in the process of planning a large data migration (~18TB) from the mac formatted NAS device, onto a Windows Server (using NetApp as the storage solution / VM datastore) I work for a company that currently stores its files on an OS X Journaled NAS device, connected to a Mac Mini via lightning cable, and the mac connects into the network via ethernet.

Support copying file attributes from MAC-to-Windows world This is what I'm looking for in an app to manage the transfer: We have a paid version of ChronoSync that we use to run our nightly backups to other external NAS devices - I see this has come up in a few Google searches.Ģ others products that are popping up in my research are arRsync and SuperDuper - can anyone comment or recommend these products? I'm wondering what the best application to manage the transfer of data might be? In Windows environments I've used Robocopy or FTP and the likes but not really familiar on the Mac side of things when it comes to data migrations. Support resuming if the transfer fails / pauses Be reliable for transferring large date - currently around ~18TB be able to provide a meaningful summary for piece of mind when the transfer is completed (kind of like ChronoSyncs log) Looking forward to hearing your feedback, definitely let me know of any 'gotchas' or things I need to take into consideration during the planning stage.

Been through this a lot (sigh).ġ: Naming. Mac users on Mac storage will can use any character they want other than : and /. So can *********REALY IMPORTANT FILE!!!!!! Yes there are spaces in the from and end. You must do a review of file and folder names BEFORE trying to migrate. Look for files that start and end with the space character. For details, see here (v=vs.85).aspxĢ: Maximum path length. In this day of unicode many parts of Windows can only handle a max file system path of 256 characters. If you are coming from a system that supported longer paths (like OS X and *nix operating systems) than you will want to review the length of your file paths. Test, test, and test some more with all your tools, including your backup software. Make sure it can both see paths that exceed the API limit and also that it is capable of restoring data in paths that exceed the length.ģ: SMB is still a nightmare. From rampant file ID numeration, to slow directory reading, to hung Finder.

#ARRSYNC REVIEW MAC OS#

Your Mac OS version will have varying degrees of success. 10.9 was a train wreck with Windows Clustered servers. 10.10 has huge issues with file ID enumeration and periodic deadlock issues.

Get cozy with the nf file.Ĥ: Don't let your Macs sleep. ARRSYNC NAME MACĬonnect to a server, let the mac sleep, on wake it can renegotiate the connection to the server volume (usually). If your Macs fall asleep with documents open from the SMB share, you are in a world of hurt.ĥ: Be prepared to not be able to find anything. Searching on Windows shares has been a frustrating situation. You will not have Spotlight support from the server so you can either use a directory trawling search tool like Find Any File or be prepared to maintain Spotlight indexes on each workstation and hope for the best.Īs for the methods to get the data from one place to the other, you need to realize there is a time constraint.

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