initial volume replication - over wan

Thanks for your help Todd, it's very much appreciated.

I think we will concentrate on your suggestion of looking at one of the other drive connection types most likely SATA and see how we go from there.

Cheers,

Paul

G'day Paul,
I agree that an "Initial Sync" option via USB would be fantastic.
The way we were thinking of getting around it was to temporaily locate the "remote" DSS on the local lan, and just manipulate the IP routes.
While we have not actually done this yet, we couldn't see why it wouldn't work.
Of course we have the advantage of the two DSS being in the same city :-)
I don't now if that is an option for you?
We also have a test rig that has a very similar configuration(same RAID controller NICS etc just different CPU/Mem), so our other thought was to just ship the drives and put them in the test rig, change the routes, replicate, revert the routes and return the disks.

rgds Ben

Arghh really need an "edit" button.
Sorry Paul, just re-read your post and realised you ahd thought about the LAN replication. Mea culpa.

Ben