Hello Gang,
I have a client that wanted an offsite backup at his home and since he was using BackupAssist I contacted sales/support and was told I could do this with Rsync to a NAS. So I purchased a Synology 214+ and have found out that the Rsync with BackupAssist is abysmally slow even when it is in the local network, it took 3.5 days for the first backup. I am somewhat to blame on this because I have since read that BackupAssist Rsync is known to be slow.
So to salvage this device I am now looking into establishing a VPN tunnel between the NAS and the office SonicWall TZ200. I have done this same using a HP Micro Server running Win7 Pro and having it use a VPN client to a Kerio Control firewall and use ShadowProtect as the backup software and it works great. I have done some searching on this but everything I am finding is how to...