On Thu, 22 May 2008 10:59:08 +0200, Chris Osicki wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2008 18:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Avery Payne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Question: >> >> We recently moved to a Samba-based file server, which holds mission- >> critical data on it (.dbf files used by our Accounting software, etc.) >> The goal was to create a file server that had excellent performance >> while providing Volume Management, but we felt that something like >> Veritas was overkill for our needs. >> >> Design Goals: >> - Redundant Hardware >> - Manual Failover (this was an acceptable solution) > [snip]
> As for the winbind and tdb files: if you fail over to the standby server > you don't have your SID to UID/GID mappings anymore, unless you copy > then somehow over. They "float on a liferaft" that is an LVM partition. The tdb's are backed up nightly and placed in the partition. Should the server fail, the tdb's are restored and the smb.conf modified... -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
