Fastest way to copy files between NASs?

Set up Frontview backup job on either the NV+ to push the data from the NV+ to the Ultra or on the Ultra to pull the data from the NV+. You will need to set up a backup job for each share you want to copy over. When setting up the backup job, you sepcify the source and the destination. Here are the two settings on backing up my NAS1 to my NAS2. Please note these settings are for my regular nightly backup via rsysnc which is an extremely fast synchronization of files between two servers. For the first backup you would want to use Remote: NFS Server where I have Remote: Rsysnc Server. NFS is much faster than rsync for the first pass. You can trigger the backup manually by clicking on the "Go" button. Then switch to rsync and manually trigger the process again. It will only take minutes, not hours on the second pass and it confirms the two data volumes are the same.

You will have to enable the NFS and rsync processes on the share listing page of both units.





The reason this is faster than going through the PC is that the data has to travel from the NAS to the PC be verified and then copied back over the same data path to the other NAS. The bandwidth from the PC to either the switch or router is effectively halved because there is only the one cable. Going from one NAS to the other it has the full data path. If you desire, you can even set it up to do the transfer, especially of the largest share, overnight while you sleep.