NAS sync

[lampshade]

Hello!

I have a question regarding a sync that i am looking to do. We have another NAS appliance that is hosting some SMB shares. I am looking to mount that SMB share within freenas, create a net dataset and share then copy/sync all the data from the other NAS to the freenas share... Is this possible with freenas? or am i have to going to use a VM and mount both shares then sync between them using a product such as Securecopy. The existing NAS device is an EMC appliance. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Chris Moore]

I don't have any experience with EMC, but FreeNAS can do rsync and a quick Google search tells me the Isolon system in EMC is built on top of FreeBSD. FreeNAS being built on top of FreeBSD, there may be a chance that using something like rsync between the two systems would be fairly easy to do. If EMC is using ZFS for the file system, you might even be able to setup a ZFS send | ZFS receive between the two. That would be the very best because it should be faster than rsync.
Hopefully someone with more EMC knowlege than I have can chime in here. There should be no need to mount the storage to FreeNAS. That is not something that is commonly done.

 

[styno]

EMC nas is either Isilon, VNX or an Enas implementation that is heavily based on VNX. Neither of them are using ZFS or having a built-in mechanism that I am aware of that integrates with Freenas.
That leaves you to the 'normal' migration tools you would use alla robocopy/synctoy/rsync/NetApp's XCP/...