I work for a small media company. We currently have a NAS that is filled with content, often times when clients request stuff they ask us to send them a drive instead of a download. Today we manually copy the requested content onto an external drive.
Frequently we might have two different clients request the same things.
What I'm looking for is a solution where I could create a template even if its a rudimentary list of directories and then use that to copy directories from our NAS to the external drive.
I do not want to duplicate the content in multiple directories - aside from using a load of storage it would also require updating it in all those directories whenever things change which is very often for us.
Not married to our NAS at all, we've been looking at QNAP and Synology offerings, if we could find a solve for this that was totally in the NAS or solvable with one of their apps that would be even better.
Here is a (very simplified) example to help illustrate - imagine we have a directory like:
- Content A
- Content B
- Content C
- Content D
Client A requests a drive with 'Content B' and 'Content D'. We create a script/template/text file of directories for Client A and then feed it to app , set the destination and it copies the content. When Client B requests identical we can reuse the same template.
Does app in the example above exist and is there one that could live entirely on a NAS similar to QNAP or Synology?
If not has anyone done something similar? We can write something for the NAS if need be just not looking to reinvent the wheel if an obvious solution already exists.
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