Microsoft Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R) Alternatives
While Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS) brings a great deal of flexibility to the world of file sharing, whether in-house or across a large network of branch locations, Microsoft's Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R) has many known limitations and technology challenges. One of the missing features of DFS-R is the inability to apply distributed file locks across different locations and servers which limits end-users from opening the same file in different locations on different DFS servers for read/write access.
The most commonly mentioned issues with DFS-R are:
Akzium has partnered with the two best companies providing DFS-R alternatives - Peer Software and Resilio. Each of these DFS-R replacements has a feature set that enhances Microsoft's Distributed File System solution with the missing features and functions not found in DFS-R, while also providing an alternative solution to DFS using their file replication functions to managed a distributed file sharing environment that doesn't require the use or implementation of Microsoft's Distributed File System if you prefer to avoid using DFS.
The most commonly mentioned issues with DFS-R are:
- No File Integrity Verification for replicated files
- No connection-loss-recovery mechanism for dropped connections during sync operations
- No dashboard or audit trail reporting for file replications
- Multi-location replication requires multiple sync jobs
- No file rename or file move awareness
- No selective sync capability
- No granular bandwidth management
- No distributed file locking
- No Linux or MacOS support
- No support for syncing to Object Storage
- Inabilty to sync outside of the Active Directory Domain
Akzium has partnered with the two best companies providing DFS-R alternatives - Peer Software and Resilio. Each of these DFS-R replacements has a feature set that enhances Microsoft's Distributed File System solution with the missing features and functions not found in DFS-R, while also providing an alternative solution to DFS using their file replication functions to managed a distributed file sharing environment that doesn't require the use or implementation of Microsoft's Distributed File System if you prefer to avoid using DFS.
Peer SoftwareSince 1993, Peer Software has been dedicated to creating best-of-breed enterprise solutions that help meet the challenges of today’s business requirements for always on, always available data infrastructure for:
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Resilio is a privately held software company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Millions of end-users and hundreds of enterprise customers depend on Resilio software to rapidly, reliably, and predictably transport their high-value, file-based digital assets across any IP network.
Founded by technical leaders from BitTorrent in 2016 (the creators of BitTorrent Sync), the company’s mission is to help enterprises securely unify, control, and accelerate data movement over any location and network—for file-based data sets of any scale. |