Windows – Realtime File Replication with Windows Server

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I am researching alternative solutions for real-time-file-replication on windows Server OS. Now we use XO Soft WAN Sync for file-replication but in the next time we want to expand our Server-location and so we search for a alternative System for replication. Anyone has experience with real-time replication?

SAN is not possible because the System should be closed. So if the Network is down each node must still working with the replicated files. Any suggestions?

Best Answer

Distributed File System (Microsoft)

DFS Replication

Early versions of DFS used FRS which provides basic file replication capability between servers. FRS identifies changed or new files, and copies the latest version of the entire file to all servers.

Windows Server 2003 R2 introduced "DFS Replication" (DFSR) which improves on FRS by only copying those parts of files which have changed (remote differential compression), by using data compression to reduce network traffic, and by allowing administrators flexible configuration options for limiting network traffic with a customizable schedule.

IBM General Parallel File System

The General Parallel File System (GPFS) is a high-performance shared-disk clustered file system developed by IBM. It is used by many of the supercomputers that populate the Top 500 List of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet. For example, GPFS is the filesystem of the ASC Purple Supercomputer which is composed of more than 12,000 processors and has 2 petabytes of total disk storage spanning more than 11,000 disks.

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