[Samba] samba4 replication issues | sam.ldb inconsistency

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Jul 11 04:54:01 MDT 2014


On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 12:34 +0200, mourik jan heupink - merit wrote:
> Hi Andrew, list,
> 
> > This is a difficult situation.  Ideally you would get the 'good' DC to
> > replicate to a new installation, and work from there.
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
> Ok, this is what I thought, yes. Thank you, Andrew. Just some final 
> confirmation:
> 
> All fsmo roles are currently on my DC1 (with the corrupt DomainDnsZones 
> database). I'm a bit hesitant to start moving around roles, as long as 
> everything still seems to work. But, as far as I see, there are three 
> options to proceed from here:
> 
> option 1 - move only the DomainNamingMasterRole from (corrupt) DC1 to 
> (probably healthy) DC2. Then install/add a new DC3, and then it will 
> replicate everything from DC1, except it will take the DomainDnsZones 
> from DC2, is that right?)
> 
> (but I don't know if DC=DomainDnsZones and the role 
> DomainNamingMasterRole are connected with each other like this)
> 
> option 2 - take a deep breath, move all roles to DC2, hope & check 
> everything still works afterwards, and then install/add DC3, so it will 
> replicate everything from DC2.
> 
> And I guess this is NOT possible:
> option 3 - Install a new third DC3, and replicate that new DC3 with my 
> (probably healthy) DC2, WITHOUT doing scary things like transferring 
> fsmo roles first?

There is no need to move roles in the short term.  They don't do
anything until you need to allocate a new RID pool.  By then, hopefully
you can successfully seize them. 

I think option 3 is the best option.  Get that working, as you don't
loose anything by taking this option. 

We don't have great tools for removing dead DCs yet (we have tools that
*should* do that, but clearly by reports do not).  We need to sort that
out. 

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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