[Samba] How to move a PDC

[Tom Brown]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:11 -0500, B. Cook wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I was asked to make a backup of a server that we have running as a PDC  
> (FreeBSD based).
> 
> I tried just coping over the smb.conf but that does not seem to be all  
> that I need.
> 
> How would I be able to copy a working samba server in order to make a  
> backup in case of an emergency so that the PDC function that it is  
> performing will still work.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

Well, I used linux-ha (drbd and heartbeat) to create a fail over
cluster. It has worked well for me for over four years. It is not the
easiest solution to implement, but it is nice after it is in place.

HTH,
Tom