Your company must move 300 TB of media on-prem NFS server to a new Cloud Storage bucket in us-central1 over a 1 Gbps internet link. After the initial load, the bucket must be updated nightly with only new or changed files. You want transfers to run automatically, restart if interrupted, perform integrity checks, and require minimal ongoing administration. Which solution should you implement?
Deploy Storage Transfer Service agents on the on-premises file server and create a recurring Storage Transfer Service job to move data from the NFS share to the Cloud Storage bucket.
Order a Transfer Appliance, copy the 300 TB to the device, ship it to Google, and request a new appliance each week to capture nightly changes.
Install gsutil on the file server and schedule a nightly multi-threaded gsutil rsync job to synchronize the NFS share with the bucket.
Create a Cloud VPN tunnel, mount the bucket on a VM using gcsfuse, and run a nightly Linux rsync job from the NFS share to the mounted bucket.
Storage Transfer Service (STS) provides on-premises agents that read from NFS shares and write directly to Cloud Storage. A single STS job can copy the initial 300 TB and then run on a nightly schedule, transferring only new or modified files. STS automatically parallelizes data movement, verifies checksums, and resumes failed operations, so administrators have little ongoing work. In contrast, gsutil rsync or gcsfuse with rsync require custom scripts for scheduling, monitoring, and retries, while Transfer Appliance is optimized for one-time physical imports and cannot handle continuous nightly syncs without repeatedly ordering devices.
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