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Hoop_Junkie · Guest

I would like to have two Windows 2003 Servers that I would like to syncronize
to one another. Hopefully provides some type of failover in case one should
go down. The current configuration is 2 DC W2K3 Controllers, with RAID 5
and I would like to sync data from DC 1 to DC2. Any suggestions?????

Paul Williams [MVP] · Guest

What kind of data are we talking about? FRS can do this, but if the data is
regularly changing you should limit the referrals to a specific link; you
can then manually fail over. If the data is static-ish, then this doesn't
matter.

In order to achieve what you want you need to setup a domain DFS root, and
create DFS links to shared folders. You then configure replication for
those shared folders.

You might also want to consider the forth coming DFSR replication tool that
is coming with R2. This is independent of DFS (DFS uses FRS to replicate)
and supports byte-level replication (well, it supports only replicating
changes to files not the whole file anyway).

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Paul Williams
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
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Donald · Guest

Paul,

I have been playing with DFS, but it doesn't seem to be acting the way I
want it. I have two webservers. The files are pretty static. I want to be
able to make changes to one and have the files update the second server.
This part works fine, but I also want fault tolerance. If the first server
goes down, I want the websites to be accessible on the second server.
However, when I cut off the first server, I can't access the DFS share on the
second one. Is there something I am missing?

Thanks,

Paul Williams [MVP] · Guest

Yes, you need to create a replica of the root. Right-click on the root and
choose "New root replica".

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Paul Williams
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
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