[Samba] sysvol replication options

[Jeanderson Soares]

hi, we are currently using osync to this job. It's dealing with 12 DC's
syncs for about one year and never had any trouble. Maybe you should give
it a try. About the owncloud solution, just make sure it supports xattr and
acl replication.

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Jeanderson Silva

Em sex, 7 de set de 2018 02:52, Mark Johnson via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> escreveu:

> I'm setting up a new AD infrastructure using purely Samba AD servers.  I
> have seven servers up and running, and I'm looking at options for sysvol
> replication.  I've looked into the rsync option that involves master ->
> multiple slaves and ensuring all GPO edits, login script modifications etc
> are done on the master server.  Also looked at an alternate rsync solution
> that is meshed, but of course doesn't delete files (don't really like this
> second option).
>
> Another idea I've had is to run up a small virtual machine as a Nextcloud
> server and use the owncloud cli client to run every 10 minutes via a cron
> job on each Samba server to sync the sysvol folder (it has to be triggered
> manually since the command line client isn't a daemon and doesn't monitor
> for file changes and sync automatically).  I'd stagger these client runs so
> that one server runs at minute 0,10,20 etc then the next at 1,11,12 and so
> on.  This way there would only be one server syncing at a time, and all
> servers should be in sync within 20 minutes of a change being made.
>
> The thing I like about this solution is a) changes can be made on any
> server and they will be replicated to all other servers; b) anything
> deleted will also be deleted elsewhere; c) adding new domain controllers to
> the mix will be an easy task and I won't need to worry about updating
> complicated meshed rsync configurations.
>
> The thing is that searching around, I don't see anyone that has tried this
> before so I'm wondering if there's a glaringly obvious reason I shouldn't
> do it.  I'm currently toying with it in a test environment and can't see
> any problems so far.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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