At 10:28 PM +1000 4/10/2009, Brian Christmas wrote:
>
>I'm trying to save multiple email, rtfd, and Zip files to a NAS 
>server about 30 times per hour.
>[and later] Time is critical

Why?  What's the point of all this?

>The saving to server is proving very, very slow compared to saving 
>the same files to an external hard drive off of the power mac.

Yea.  Direct i/o thru high bandwidth buses to a drive vs AFP thru 
TCP/IP thru ethernet or wifi.

The path thru the network will ALWAYS be MUCH slower than than direct i/o.

>What I'd like to do is try mirroring the external HD to the server and 
>update  the mirror every time a file is added to the external. Is 
>there any way to do this, OR is there something I should take into
>account to speed up the server.

It sounds like you're trying to do some sort of file-level faux 
networked RAID?  Why?

Either:
a) Do *real* RAID to a locally connected HD subsystem, such as a Drobo etc.
or
b) Use the fsevent type services provided in Leopard, aka Time 
Machine to a Time Capsule.

- Dan.
-- 
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

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