• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Unix,  Xsan

    Heterogenous Block Level File Replication

    File Replication Pro is a software package that will replicate data from one host to another, across a few different operating systems.  You essentially define a source, a destination, what kind of replication and a schedule.  One of the scheduling options is to simply always keep data in synchronization, which appears to be one of the main uses of the software.  File Replication Pro isn’t cheap.  Reason being that once an initial replication is complete it does not simply copy files – it copies delta changes to files.  So if 4k worth of a file changes, then it’s only going to sync that amount of data, once the initial file…