Inquiry about metadata and amount of data transfers supported by Cloud Sync

Kang

Hi teams,This is Kenji Kang at Japan Osaka SE team.

I have a technical question from a customer who wants to use Cloud Sync.

But I researched the document and could not find an answer.

Could you please to support me with customer questions?

Background

The customer uses an SMB file server in-house with a storage service called Panzura.

They have decided to replace Panzura with Amazon FSxN.

And they are considering how to move data from Panzura to Amazon FSxN.

Technical questions

1. Could you please to share me information about metadata that can be copied with Cloud Sync?

2. Could you please to share me information on the amount of data transfer supported by Cloud Sync?

For example, Cloud Sync can support to XX million files of data transfer.

Thank you for your kindly supporting.

elementx

1) There are no S3-style "metadata" on SMB shares, there's just permissions and the rest is dates

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/cloud-manager-sync/task-copying-acls.html

"Date created" can be preserved with Robocopy's `/mir` option.

2) CloudSync doesn't care how much data there is, it just copies files that it sees from A to B. What probably matters to customer is how much time they can afford for the final sync while Source is read-only (i.e. offline) and that will depend on the amount of data and changes that happened since the last sync. To estimate that you probably need the total number of files, the rate of change, and average file size.