[Samba] samba4 PDC to BDC file replication

Cristian Saavedra csg at asualcance.com
Sat Mar 2 22:02:05 MST 2013


Did you try using -X -A flags?

Also you can try using getfacl and setfacl

Enviado desde un dispositivo movil

El 2/03/2013, a las 23:41, C Waddy <craigwaddy at gmail.com> escribió:

> No luck so far with a suitable solution for file replication to BDC and
> retain ntfs perms..
> 
> After testing again with Rsync, it will not preserve NTFS permissions, no
> matter what flags are used?
> 
> Glusterfs is cool but only for 64 Bit systems.
> 
> There must be a solution to this with Samba4, anyone using a tested and
> working Method?
> 
> Without the replication of folders/files with NTFS ACL's we can't use
> Samba4 in our Business which is very frustrating :(
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Ben Metcalfe <bwmetcalfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Without inviting too many anti-CDDL flames; if you have ZFS on Linux
>> working on your samba 4 box, a zfs send and receive should do the job well;
>> preserving all file attributes and only transferring deltas.
>> Plus you get all the usual ZFS benefits (snapshots, copy-on-write,
>> check-summing), assuming you've got the RAM to make it work smoothly.
>> 
>> http://zfsonlinux.org/
>> 
>> Has anyone tried this configuration?
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>> On 1 March 2013 23:46, Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks. I asked this a few weeks back and didn't get much response.
>>> The half-hearted consensus was that rsync wouldn't do the job.
>>> 
>>> [It seemed to me it should, as long as you're replicating between two
>>> DC members, and not to a non DC member. (Because, as I figured it, a
>>> non DC member wouldn't have any idea about the users/groups, since
>>> it's not replicating and of the DC data, right?)]
>>> 
>>> Glad for any light you can shed - and thanks for letting me know it
>>> should work. I'll tinker with it when I'm to that point.
>>> 
>>> -Greg
>>> 
>>> 
>>> JA> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 09:13:39PM -0800, Gregory Sloop wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.]
>>> 
>>> JA> rsync using -A (preserve ACLs) and -X (preserve extended attributes)
>>> JA> and -o (preserve owner (super-user only)) and -g (preserve group)
>>> JA> should copy thing perfectly.
>>> 
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