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toledotom
Jul 11, 2016Tutor
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 i...
- Jan 24, 2017
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.
toledotom
Jan 24, 2017Tutor
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.
FramerV
Jan 29, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi toledotom,
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