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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---