[Samba] rsync'ing samba shares

2013-02-13 Thread Gregory Sloop
I know this has come up a bit in the past, but consider this situation: Two Samba4 DC's - and I want to mirror the data shares to the backup DC in case we lose the primary DC and it's file shares. [A cheap, dirty, poor-mans semi-CTDB. How did you ever guess that Red Green was helping me?!] The

Re: [Samba] rsync'ing samba shares

2013-02-13 Thread Edward Ashley
Hi, I have a slightly similar setup with a primary / slave samba server on site, using DRBD for the data replication. And I nightly rsync the directories to a third samba server offsite. I also then rsync that third system with a backup server running ZFS on linux and then take a snapshot. I would

Re: [Samba] rsync'ing samba shares

2013-02-13 Thread Christian Rost
Hi Greg, the answer to your question can be quite complex, depending on your needs and your setup. If we are sticking with file-syncing than you can use robocopy as well as rsync. It depends on the amount of data hat needs to be synced, how often you want to sync, how can the DCs reach each

Re: [Samba] rsync'ing samba shares

2013-02-13 Thread Daniel Müller
...@lists.samba.org] Im Auftrag von Christian Rost Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2013 07:52 An: Greg Sloop; Gregory Sloop; samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: Re: [Samba] rsync'ing samba shares Hi Greg, the answer to your question can be quite complex, depending on your needs and your setup. If we