[Samba] sysvol replication options
Jeanderson Soares
ssjeanderson at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 00:42:09 UTC 2018
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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