[Samba] PVE HA for DCs

[Luis Peromarta]

Not that there’s a software problem but maybe like a power failure. Say a non-gracefully shut down server.

Replication wise, is it ok to just reboot it ?

LP
On 4 Jun 2024 at 20:11 +0100, samba at lists.samba.org <samba at lists.samba.org>, wrote:
>
> Well, a Samba DC shouldn't crash, but if it does, you need to find out
> why it crashed, there really isn't much point in restarting a DC if it
> is just going to crash again.
>
> If the 'crash' was caused by an easily fixed error and can be fixed
> quickly, you should be able to restart it and it should replicate from
> any other DCs. You can, theoretically, restart a DC quite some time
> after it is stopped, but it may just be easier to replace it.
>
> So, to put it into a nutshell, if a DC is stopped for a few hours, then
> it should be safe to restart it, but if comes to days or weeks, then I
> would replace it, better safe than sorry :-)