Would you recommend ReadyNAS Replicate add-on

DrJones wrote:
http://www.netgear.com/business/products/storage/readyNAS-replicate/default.aspx Apparently replicate now works on non-x86 units such as the Duo & NV....

A license is available the Duo v2 and the NV+ v2 (ARM platforms). It is NOT available on the NV, the Duo or the NV+ (Sparc Platforms)

In a nutshell, I'd like to know who if anyone has any "real-life" Replicate jobs running successfully day after day. We've been piloting this on 3 remote sites for about a month and have found after many hours of frustration that it is a poorly designed, poorly executed and extremely poorly supported product. At $210 per license you would think the product would actually work, for example as well as QuickBooks. The marketing material is slick but unfortunately the product is horrible!!

Shame on you NetGear for 1. releasing such a horrible product as something other than beta, 2. not supporting it once it's been released.

SummitComp wrote:

In a nutshell, I'd like to know who if anyone has any "real-life" Replicate jobs running successfully day after day. We've been piloting this on 3 remote sites for about a month and have found after many hours of frustration that it is a poorly designed, poorly executed and extremely poorly supported product. At $210 per license you would think the product would actually work, for example as well as QuickBooks. The marketing material is slick but unfortunately the product is horrible!! Shame on you NetGear for 1. releasing such a horrible product as something other than beta, 2. not supporting it once it's been released.

I agree with your sentiments.

That said:

1) I have found Replicate Licenses available from BottomLineTelecom.com for $170 (approx) each.

2) I have 2 sites where it is successful on a daily basis with a third in progress....I have it going from site "A" to "B" successfully, now just need to configure jobs to (successfully!) go from "B" to "A" and we will declare victory.

3) Exactly what issues/errors are you experiencing with Replicate? Perhaps we could help you a bit here....

I have been dealing with replicate for the past week. I am trying to back up a ReadyNAS Pro 6 to a 516. So far I have not been able to get that to occur. I keep getting an error 50 or 51 and also something about snapshots.
Any pointers would be helpful. Does anybody know what port needs to be forward from the router. I have an AirPort Extreme.
Bigbearf

BigBearf wrote:
I have been dealing with replicate for the past week. I am trying to back up a ReadyNAS Pro 6 to a 516. So far I have not been able to get that to occur. I keep getting an error 50 or 51 and also something about snapshots. Any pointers would be helpful. Does anybody know what port needs to be forward from the router. I have an AirPort Extreme. Bigbearf

Replicate doesn't need any ports forwarded. You could try forwarding port 873, but it shouldn't be necessary.

I gave up on Replicate & learned how to setup RSync....been extremely reliable & happy with it.

Hi,

I would not recommend it.
It's poorly documented, and badly supported.
The logging is terrible and cant seem to extract ANY useful troubleshooting data out of it.
Emails through their mailer on the replicate login page never get answered.
Tickets I open with Netgear (I have a priority dealer access) get closed with the issues ever being resolved.
The enterprise support do not seem trained on this and supply useful tips like re-stall latest version, stop/start service.

Internally, it works really well, every time I tale unit offsite, it all breaks.

I've been using Replicate between an RN104 and a remote RN102 for some time now and it works perfectly! No port forwarding or anything, it works out of the box... Are your shares secured properly?

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