On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 00:29, G�mes G�za wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > Sorry for this general question, but I'd like to hear your opinion on > this subject, but I'd like to set up a really working backup solution > for my PDC, currently it uses NFS, so there are lots of issues: No ACLs, > When NFS server goes down, everything fails. > What method would you recommend for replicating folders, keeping > existing ACLs (ability of manipulating that ACLs from Windows is not > important) between Samba PDC-BDCs: > - -Rsync+FAM based scripts
For things that should be static, but replicated (such as the netlogon share), this sounds like the right solution. > or > - -Distributed filesystems: > -Coda > -Intermezzo > etc. > > Thank you for ANY answer. You cannot safely replicate files between two CIFS servers, unless you also manage the locks and share modes. A BDC is not a mirror of a PDC, for file shares, only for the logon database. Clustered CIFS is *hard*, see recent discussions on samba-technical. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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