NAS for distribution points - EMC Clarion - possible to replicate on the NAS side?

[donmontalvo]

Is anyone using EMC Clarion (NAS) for their Distribution Points? How are you handling replication? Is it being done on the NAS side? Or are you using Robocopy?

Also, is your replication method reliable? For example, are your 13.8 GB installers for Adobe CS5.x breaking? :)

Thanks,
Don

[Matt]

We use Netapps and a simple Robocopy.

Its never 100% though. I could never pin point exactly why but some packages just don't move over unless I manually copy them.

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Matt Lee, CCA/ACMT/ACPT/ACDT
Senior IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper Administrator
Fox Networks Group

[donmontalvo]

Hi Matt,

As always, I value your responses! :) Hey, can you post your robocopy command?

The concern I have with Robocopy is that it handles *.pkg installers as directories (which I realize they are - unless they're flat).

If there were a switch in robocopy that could prevent it from traversing *.pkg directories, and instead overwrite if the *.pkg modification date/time is different that would be great.

However it appears to traverse the directories, and copies over files from within the *.pkg, and that seems to "break" some of the *.pkg installers.

Don

[Matt]

I have not found a way. I am sure a super windows scripted could whip something together. PKG files seem very hit or miss. I am actually going to look into this a little more.

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Matt Lee, CCA/ACMT/ACPT/ACDT
Senior IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper Administrator
Fox Networks Group

[jonscott]

I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but I believe there is a
robocopy switch to ignore certain directory paths - like /xf *.pkg or
something similar. That should at least ignore any pkg files. It's been
awhile since I was using robocopy much...

Jon

[donmontalvo]

Hi Jon,

Thanks but unfortunately we don't want to exclude *.pkg from replicating. Just want robocopy to overwrite if the Master *.pkg is newer than the Replica *.pkg.

Just need to not have robocopy traverse within the *.pkg. Doesn't seem like robocopy has the capability. So AAMEE *.pkg installers are breaking during replication. :(