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Adding a second Readynas 202 to sync with Amazon Cloud Drive
I currently have a Readynas 202, on which I store my work files at the office (25 gb), which syncs bidirectionally with Amazon Cloud Drive. I want to add a second Readynas at home, and let ACD snc it with the other. Two questions:
1. Rather than chewing up my bandwidth for a couple days for the 25 gb to load into the new Readynas, could I take the first Readynas offline, replicate it to the new one, and then put them both online? Would ACD then treat them as already "synced" and go from there, or is there a risk that ACD will see some minor difference between the two and pile them together, resulting in two versions of each file?
2. Aside from the above issue, are there any pitfalls to putting two Readynas 202's onto one ACD account?
I set this up back in July, so I'm six months into it and thought I would give an update for anyone who might be considering this setup.
Its working fine. As indicated in my first post, I have two ReadyNAS 202 boxes, one at my office and one at home, with both set to sync to a single Amazon Cloud Drive (ACD) account. I'm the only user on the boxes. They faithfully stay in sync with ACD and with each other, so I effectively have a VPN without connectivity and speed issues. (A virtual VPN!)
I did run into an odd and frightening scenario when I worked on certain files, particularly Excel sheets. If I was making changes to a sheet and saving it as I worked, the ReadyNAS for some reason had a coniption and continuously uploaded the sheet to ACD, deleted it, uploaded it, deleted it, like every second. Occassionally it would finish with a delete, thus losing my file and I would have to go online and restore it from the ACD trash folder. And the ACD trash folder was getting loaded with numerous deletes of the same file.
I brought this to Netgear's attention; they promptly found the bug and fixed it on my boxes. I understand that it involved a change to my OS (6.6.1) and that the fix will be part of the next OS release.
Netgear's response was impressive to say the least.
All is well and as stated I wanted to give an update for anyone considering this setup.
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Hi toledotom,
I am not quite sure on how the system will react to the scenarios that you used in both of your questions. I may have to ask my other colleagues to take a look at this or let's wait for other community members to chime in.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community TeamThis works fine; just need to store data in the Amazonclouddrive share which is automatically created when Amazon Cloud Drive is enabled on the ReadyNas boxes. Anything stored in that share on either box syncs to ACD as well as to the other.
I just want to add that 2-way sync isn't a good backup method (in some ways it is worse than an single NAS with no backup at all). So you should add a backup plan to your deployment too
If your goal is backup, then a one-way backup from work->home is better. Both rsync-over-ssh and repliciate can to that for you. Then perhaps use 2-way sync from one NAS to the cloud if you want.
I set this up back in July, so I'm six months into it and thought I would give an update for anyone who might be considering this setup.
Its working fine. As indicated in my first post, I have two ReadyNAS 202 boxes, one at my office and one at home, with both set to sync to a single Amazon Cloud Drive (ACD) account. I'm the only user on the boxes. They faithfully stay in sync with ACD and with each other, so I effectively have a VPN without connectivity and speed issues. (A virtual VPN!)
I did run into an odd and frightening scenario when I worked on certain files, particularly Excel sheets. If I was making changes to a sheet and saving it as I worked, the ReadyNAS for some reason had a coniption and continuously uploaded the sheet to ACD, deleted it, uploaded it, deleted it, like every second. Occassionally it would finish with a delete, thus losing my file and I would have to go online and restore it from the ACD trash folder. And the ACD trash folder was getting loaded with numerous deletes of the same file.
I brought this to Netgear's attention; they promptly found the bug and fixed it on my boxes. I understand that it involved a change to my OS (6.6.1) and that the fix will be part of the next OS release.
Netgear's response was impressive to say the least.
All is well and as stated I wanted to give an update for anyone considering this setup.
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