To have your data high available put it on a replicating GLUSTER vol (glusterfs-as many Fileservers as you want). Or replicate it with drbd master master (if 2 DCs are the limitation)
Good Luck Daniel ----------------------------------------------- EDV Daniel Müller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: muel...@tropenklinik.de Internet: www.tropenklinik.de ----------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] Im Auftrag von steve Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Juni 2012 12:23 An: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: Re: [Samba] Samba4 Can we use two file-servers? On 26/06/12 11:54, Mike Howard wrote: > On 26/06/2012 09:04, steve wrote: >> Hi >> We've just added a second DC to our domain, both DCs are Samba4 >> >> DC1 is also the s3fs file server. If that goes down then so does the >> file-server. IOW, we can still authenticate via DC2 but we cannot do >> any work! >> >> What are my options here? Is it possible to sync the files to DC2 and >> use that in case of failure? Or maybe add a third box running smbd? >> >> Cheers, >> Steve > It depends on your needs. For me, I use a couple of arm plugs as PDC & > BDC for authentiaction and dns etc and file serve files from > elsewhere, also plugs. Where ever you serve files from, if that box > goes down you lose your data/file serving capability. You can use > (software or > hardware) raid to provide redundancy for the disks and/or a complete > backup device for full HA. > Hi Mike Sorry, my English is over 30 years old! Can you give me a one liner on plugs and HA in a S4 context? We'd like to have a spare box with a backup of the data to substitute the DC/fileserver. What do you think about the possibility of syncing the data over to the secondary DC along with a copy of smb.conf and using that when the primary DC/fileserver goes down. Would the clients know to use the new fileserver: thinking about Kerberos here. Cheers Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba