NAS-to-NAS Sync

[nssimpson]

Hi All

I currently work from home but will be moving into offices. At home we have 200mb down/12mb up. The office will have 350mb down/7mb up. We have a TS-212P at home.

I would like to buy another TS-212P to locate at the new office and have them sync. We're only using small files (spreadsheets, etc) so I don't think the internet speeds will be an issue.

My question is if someone has a spreadsheet open in the office and I try to open it at home will the NAS devices communicate and tell the other one that the file is open?

Cheers

Nick

[dolbyman]

office documents handle the file locking themselves, so as long as the replication is in real time it should be no crazy problem.

[nssimpson]

Sounds like a plan then

[nssimpson]

Will the TS-231P sync okay with a TS-212P?

[dolbyman]

it should .. speeds will be a bit low due to the small arm processors

CAt1 backup feature set
http://docs.qnap.com/nas/4.3/cat1/en/in ... cation.htm

[nssimpson]

The TS-231P has a much more powerful processor. If I put this in the main office hopefully it'll be better at pushing changes to the TS-212P.

[nssimpson]

Can anyone see any issues with this setup?

[nssimpson]

Response from QNAP was very helpful. It read:

Ques: can you tell me why there is no real-time option on two-way sync?

Ans: This is design limitation hence we don't have real-time option for 2-way sync.

One-way Sync: Only local -> remote supports real-time & schedule sync but remote -> local sync does support only schedule.

If you would like, we can add it as "feature request" in our internal bug tracker but it will take a long time to analyze & consider the feature. Time frame is unknown. Please confirm on it.

I've now decided to set up a VPN instead and do one-way sync so I have an offsite backup.

Seems to be by far the best option.