Using DFS share without DFS replication
Hi Guys,
I nto my understandign DFS Share and DFS replication go hand in hand. In a way that DFS namespace(Share) works as a load balancedr or you can say pointer between two physical server. The share folders are physically empty then and the only job they have is to redirect the request to server with least traffic. User goes there and makes the appropriate changes physically.
Now, DFS replication takes care of Replication, it makes sure that whatever changes are physically made into the client's host server for that session, are replicated to the other server.
If I am right then what does happen in the following scenario?
DFS Share is on but the replication is off.
People will come and theier requests will be redirected to two different servers accrding to traffic but with the replciation off, How will this changes be synchronized?
I nto my understandign DFS Share and DFS replication go hand in hand. In a way that DFS namespace(Share) works as a load balancedr or you can say pointer between two physical server. The share folders are physically empty then and the only job they have is to redirect the request to server with least traffic. User goes there and makes the appropriate changes physically.
Now, DFS replication takes care of Replication, it makes sure that whatever changes are physically made into the client's host server for that session, are replicated to the other server.
If I am right then what does happen in the following scenario?
DFS Share is on but the replication is off.
People will come and theier requests will be redirected to two different servers accrding to traffic but with the replciation off, How will this changes be synchronized?
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We use Robocopy
Create a scheduled task that runs a bat file nightly.
Here is some lines from that .BAT file
Create a scheduled task that runs a bat file nightly.
Here is some lines from that .BAT file
start "Update Server1" robocopy c:\RepShare\ \\Server1\g$\Repshare\ /MIR /XO /R:5 /W:10 /X /log:c:\dfslogs\DFSCopy-Server1.log /XF *.DCN /XD CADD* DATA* ArcGIS9.2*
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OK so in this case admin has to manually take care of sync :).
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Thank you very much guys. This was a really healthy knowledge sharing :).
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I am trying to close this question by distributing points and selecting solutions and it's is putting me on hold. I have never seen this kind of behavior before from this website.
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"In your scenario, without replication ensuring that both servers serve the same information, if a user saves a file to the DFS namespaced folder, the next time they try to access that file it may not be visible to them because DFS is pointing them to the server that doesn't have the file. "
then
I can not have DFS Share without replication (Atleast it is not recommneded) because it raises sync issues and users will not see the right files there.
But
According to Elmagoal here::
"The DFS shares do not have to be replicated. If you have DFS on one server and users are using the DFS shares they will only go to that server."
Do you mean this is the case when I have DFS share only on one server, right? What if the DFS share is actually having two servers listed there. Does it make replication required there as acbrown2010 said?