Sync from Server to Server

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elchico

Hi all,

I want to use FreeFileSync to sync from server1 to server2. My question is now: Are the files copied from server 1 to the remote PC (my laptop) and copied then again onto server2, or are the files copied directly from server1 to server2?

Thanks.
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Plerry

FFS has no means to initiate direct data transfer between server 1 and server 2,
so the data-flow is always
(server 1) => (machine running FFS) => (server 2) or vice versa.
Only if server 1 or server 2 would be running FFS, you would skip this step in between.
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elchico

Hi Plerry,

thanks for your reply. Then I have to think about another way.
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David Morrow

Elchico, this may be too late to be of use but... I have two NAS's, a QNAP and a Terramaster. I found that to do a direct NAS to NAS file transfer I needed to use Rsync. It runs on the NAS's, not my workstation. I'm not geek enough to give much of a technical explanation but Rsync appears to have been around for a very long time and is ubiquitous enough that you may already have it on your servers.