[Samba] samba4 PDC to BDC file replication

[L.P.H. van Belle]

I'm voting for... 
Daniel is going make a nice example/howto howto do this.  ;-))  
i've seen him talking a lot about this, but howto setup this...  
I like to know..  

;-)  

Gr. 

Louis

>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: mueller at tropenklinik.de 
>[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Daniel Müller
>Verzonden: vrijdag 1 maart 2013 8:09
>Aan: 'C Waddy'; 'Greg Sloop'
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] samba4 PDC to BDC file replication
>
>Use glusterfs.
>
>And samba4 in replication mode.
>
>Good Luck
>
>
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>Auftrag von C Waddy
>Gesendet: Freitag, 1. März 2013 07:19
>An: Greg Sloop
>Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
>Betreff: Re: [Samba] samba4 PDC to BDC file replication
>
>Hi Greg,
>
>Thanks for the info, its a tough one. I was hoping the msdsf 
>would replicate
>data but it appears it doesnt appear to or am i missing something?
>
>I used a program in the past called File replication pro on 
>Suse/novell  and
>it worked. I haave emailed their support and asked if it will 
>work in our
>situation.
>
>I am going to give it a go in the Samba4 test environment over 
>the weekend,
>ill let you know if it works.
>
>On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> CW> I have built two samba4 boxes, one as a PDC and the as a DC, all
>> working
>> CW> perfectly. If I create a user through the mmc snapin 
>then turn off 
>> CW> the
>> PDC,
>> CW> I can still login to the domain using the DC which is great. The
>> problem is
>> CW> their files and ntfs permissions on BDC.
>>
>> CW> I have assigned user and group rights using windows explorer to 
>> CW> certain folders, i.e granted user1 full permissions to 
>that folder
>>
>> CW> The problem I have is trying to replicate/snc the users 
>data/files
>> from PDC
>> CW> to DC whilst keeping the NTFS permissions that have been set. 
>> CW> Rysnc
>> doesnt
>> CW> seem to keep the ntfs permissions
>>
>> CW> The reason for this is if the PDC goes down, user logs on using 
>> CW> the DC
>> and
>> CW> can access their files which have retained their files and
>permissions.
>>
>> CW> Is there some way to achieve this?
>>
>> I'm in the same boat, and I'm only aware of two possibilities.
>>
>> 1) Robocopy - using a Windows client.
>>    BUT Robocopy doesn't do file deltas - changed files are copied in
>>    their entirety. Which isn't a problem if you don't have large
>>    files. But if you've got a 10G file that changes often, then this
>>    probably isn't the best alternative.
>>
>> 2) http://www.bvckup.com/support/ [Bvckup]
>>    This also appears to be a Windows utility, but does handle file
>>    delta's. I have never used this tool and so can't vouch 
>for it in any
>>    way.
>>
>> If you find a functional solution, that preferably can be 
>used on the 
>> two Linux/Samba boxes to do file-deltas and still maintain the 
>> permissions - that would be best.
>>
>> One other option that might work:
>> Rsync the data, and use robocopy to simply duplicate the permissions 
>> structure. [I believe this is possible.]
>>
>> This last idea sounds bat$hit insane - but hey, it might 
>actually work 
>> reasonably well. :)
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>>
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