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    From Nick Andre@618:500/24 to All on Monday, May 08, 2023 08:22:34
    Between two Dell R510 servers running Windows.... suggestions?

    Server A and B have 2x16TB drives in a Raid 1. Both are Windows Server 2019.

    Server B is intended to be a mirror copy of Server A, but does not need to be on except for maybe a few times a year to sync up desired changes on Server A.

    Server A will tell Server B to power up remotely via. the Dell Idrac "Racadm" command a few times a year via Task scheduler.

    Server B the boots up to Windows and executes a simple batch file which
    Xcopies the contents of server A, erasing the Archive attribute, then automatically shutting down when completed. So only new files added to server A are ever copied to server B... files which have the archive-attribute on changes.

    The problem is if I ever decide to move directories or erase. Xcopy does not take this into account. I must manually login to Server B to do the same type of changes as on server A. Only copy-operations are really in sync. For example, if I move a directory on Server A, Xcopy will see it as a "new" directory in the copy process on server B.

    Open to suggestions or improvements, using what is native to Windows or shareware I can try out. Not a show-stopper, the setup is doing exactly as I want it to do.

    Nick

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to Nick Andre on Monday, May 08, 2023 14:04:41
    Hello Nick,

    08 May 23 08:22, you wrote to All:

    Open to suggestions or improvements, using what is native to Windows
    or shareware I can try out. Not a show-stopper, the setup is doing
    exactly as I want it to do.

    Try this:

    "The sync tool for Windows Server is called Storage Replica https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-replica/storage
    -replica-overview . Storage Replica is a technology that enables the replication of volumes between servers or clusters for disaster recovery and supports both synchronous and asynchronous replication."

    -- Sean

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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/16 to Nick Andre on Tuesday, May 09, 2023 06:29:00
    Nick Andre wrote to All <=-

    Open to suggestions or improvements, using what is native to Windows or shareware I can try out. Not a show-stopper, the setup is doing exactly
    as I want it to do.

    I use SyncToy, a Microsoft product. Not installed with Windows, but
    Windows adjacent. :) I use it to sync media to a backup drive, and it
    manages changes automatically.

    It's got a command line option to run a job from script or from task
    scheduler.




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