Post by sascha on Jul 18, 2007 16:03:06 GMT 7
Hi all.
First of all I would like to say that I´m very glad with my two N5200 - the cost/performance ratio is great - and after some configuring-problems I got them to work very fine.
I also have to say that I´m no "in-depth"-user - I´m a designer and 3D/video-geek and most of the projects for my customers are heavily data-intensive tasks. I often produce several gigabytes of data a night. But I don´t understand the "in-depth" functionality of the N5200 system software and I´ve got no linux-skills - I do understand the configuring-pages and what the possibilities are, but I cannot produce modules or program custom firmware or something like this...
To prevent data-lost I need to mirror my data daily as reliable as possible.
To achieve this I configured two identical N5200 - one ist the fileserver, the other one is the backupserver.
I use the nsync-utility to mirror all the data at a certain time via ftp.
At this point I´d like to mention, that I really like (and need) the advantage, that the N5200 does an "intelligent" backup via nsync - that means that the N5200 seems to "know" what data has changed and only does the synchronisation for the changed data.
Unlike backup-software like e.g. "Allsync", with nsync there is no data-comparison necessary. N5200 knows what to do and starts immediately. This is very time-saving, particularly if you want to do this via the internet. A data-comparison via the internet with millions of files lasts for days - if only some files have changed or some files were added (and this is mostly the case) it is not necessary that ALL the files have to be checked daily.
I configured everything properly and everything works fine in the WAN - the fileserver syncs every day at 5pm to the backupserver.
So what´s my problem?
The two machines stand next to each other in my single-room studio. If the studio catches fire all data are gone. In case of a burglary the burglar takes both and all data are gone.
So I need to take the backupserver home and make the syncing via the internet.
In principle this is not the problem, but nsync only works with a fixed IP-adress - not with a ftp-domain-name e.g. backup.dyndns.org.
And here you see my actual problem - I have no fixed IP-adress (and I don´t want to setup one, because it is quite expensive). I want to use a dyndns-service pointing to a changing IP-adress, but in this case I have to adress a ftp-domain-name.
I thought I could do a workaround: Mount a ftp-adress on a separate workstation as local drive with e.g. "NetDrive" and do the syncing with "Allsync" - but "NetDrive" is extremely instable and the data-comparison lasts tooooo long, so this definitely does not work.
So here again my question: Is there any possibility with nsync to adress a ftp-domain-name rather than a fixed IP-adress?
I would appretiate any suggestions/tips/howto´s to this topic.
Thanks to you all.
Sascha
First of all I would like to say that I´m very glad with my two N5200 - the cost/performance ratio is great - and after some configuring-problems I got them to work very fine.
I also have to say that I´m no "in-depth"-user - I´m a designer and 3D/video-geek and most of the projects for my customers are heavily data-intensive tasks. I often produce several gigabytes of data a night. But I don´t understand the "in-depth" functionality of the N5200 system software and I´ve got no linux-skills - I do understand the configuring-pages and what the possibilities are, but I cannot produce modules or program custom firmware or something like this...
To prevent data-lost I need to mirror my data daily as reliable as possible.
To achieve this I configured two identical N5200 - one ist the fileserver, the other one is the backupserver.
I use the nsync-utility to mirror all the data at a certain time via ftp.
At this point I´d like to mention, that I really like (and need) the advantage, that the N5200 does an "intelligent" backup via nsync - that means that the N5200 seems to "know" what data has changed and only does the synchronisation for the changed data.
Unlike backup-software like e.g. "Allsync", with nsync there is no data-comparison necessary. N5200 knows what to do and starts immediately. This is very time-saving, particularly if you want to do this via the internet. A data-comparison via the internet with millions of files lasts for days - if only some files have changed or some files were added (and this is mostly the case) it is not necessary that ALL the files have to be checked daily.
I configured everything properly and everything works fine in the WAN - the fileserver syncs every day at 5pm to the backupserver.
So what´s my problem?
The two machines stand next to each other in my single-room studio. If the studio catches fire all data are gone. In case of a burglary the burglar takes both and all data are gone.
So I need to take the backupserver home and make the syncing via the internet.
In principle this is not the problem, but nsync only works with a fixed IP-adress - not with a ftp-domain-name e.g. backup.dyndns.org.
And here you see my actual problem - I have no fixed IP-adress (and I don´t want to setup one, because it is quite expensive). I want to use a dyndns-service pointing to a changing IP-adress, but in this case I have to adress a ftp-domain-name.
I thought I could do a workaround: Mount a ftp-adress on a separate workstation as local drive with e.g. "NetDrive" and do the syncing with "Allsync" - but "NetDrive" is extremely instable and the data-comparison lasts tooooo long, so this definitely does not work.
So here again my question: Is there any possibility with nsync to adress a ftp-domain-name rather than a fixed IP-adress?
I would appretiate any suggestions/tips/howto´s to this topic.
Thanks to you all.
Sascha