evans leung
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Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:
DFS on a directory of 60GB+ |
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Hi,
I am working to recommend a DFS+FRS solution for a client who wants to
DFS+FRS in their DATA directory.
There's already a DFS root setup by the previouse IT contract -
\\domain\data as the root pointing to server \\DC1\data, I read here it's a
not a good way to do it.
My questions are:
1) if they want to DFS+FRS the e:\data directory on server \\DC1 to server
\\DC2 - what should be the root then?
2) can DFS+FRS handle the 60GB directory? I trialled it last night but the
FRS service stops after 1GB of files were replicated. Worst part is then
\\DC1\data directory has lost all but 2 sub-directories. Is it a FRS
problem?
3) what they want to achieve is that IF DC1 goes down DC2 will act as the
file server with only files missing from previous replication. DC2 is only
a slow server with plenty of diskspace (with AD installed), so users will
only use files on DC1 but not DC2 unless DC1 goes down. Is this scenario
possible to achieve?
Cheers,
Evans |
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Leslie R. Thomas
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Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:
Re: DFS on a directory of 60GB+ |
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DFS will definitely handle larger than 1GB and I would locate the staging
directory to make sure that I wasn't running into space problems. That
being said, I have shyed away from its use based upon a problem that I ran
into with it back under W2k. The replication mechanism that handled DFS was
the same one that handles your AD replication. If one stopped functioning,
so did the other. I wrote a significant white paper back then that I sent
to MS, and have never looked to see if they got it resolved. Translation:
When you hit something that causes your DFS to stop replicating, there was a
good chance that it would take your domain with it.
"evans leung" <evans_leung@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi,
I am working to recommend a DFS+FRS solution for a client who wants to
DFS+FRS in their DATA directory.
There's already a DFS root setup by the previouse IT contract -
\\domain\data as the root pointing to server \\DC1\data, I read here it's
a
not a good way to do it.
My questions are:
1) if they want to DFS+FRS the e:\data directory on server \\DC1 to
server
\\DC2 - what should be the root then?
2) can DFS+FRS handle the 60GB directory? I trialled it last night but
the
FRS service stops after 1GB of files were replicated. Worst part is then
\\DC1\data directory has lost all but 2 sub-directories. Is it a FRS
problem?
3) what they want to achieve is that IF DC1 goes down DC2 will act as the
file server with only files missing from previous replication. DC2 is
only
a slow server with plenty of diskspace (with AD installed), so users will
only use files on DC1 but not DC2 unless DC1 goes down. Is this scenario
possible to achieve?
Cheers,
Evans
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