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I suggest that you first define your requirements. &nbsp;What problem or scenario are you trying to solve?<br />
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How much data are we talking about? &nbsp;What is your current backup/recovery plan?<br />
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The two things you really need to determine are your recovery time objective (RTO) and your recovery point objective (RPO). <br />
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Recovery time is, &quot;how long can you take to get your data available to your users?&quot; &nbsp;15 minutes? &nbsp;4 hours? &nbsp;1 day?<br />
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Recovery point is &quot;how much data are you willing to lose?&quot; &nbsp;Do you need to restore to a point 15 minutes ago? &nbsp;4 hours ago? &nbsp;Last night?<br />
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Once you've decided on these figures, you can start finding options that meet your needs.
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Data is about 200GB that can go at the most to 500GB.<br />
I am ok with last night data restore.<br />
Ok with 3-4 hours downtime but trying to minimise the downtime. <br />
I am doing daily backup at night using windows backup software. Backing up bare metal backup of all the VMs. But sometime these backups fails &amp;&nbsp;I am not trusting the backups. <br />
Don't have budget for symantec or common vault backup solutions.<br />
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I have spare previous server machines. So has set up that machine as additional domain controller &amp;&nbsp;hot standby DHCP. As the data is on primary DC; I want to replicate the data on ADC. In case main DC machine hardware fails, I could use ADC with shared folders &amp;&nbsp;redirected folders.
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The query is still the same; how to move redirected folders to DFS.
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I quit the idea of replicating through DFS feature.<br />
If I would use DFS, I can't take backup from the host machine of the VMs; restoration would break DFS replication.
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I have a windows 2012 R2 virtual machine as a Domain controller.<br />
On this DC I have installed windows server essential <a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/dn280940.aspx" rel="ugc">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/dn280940.aspx</a>&nbsp;<br />
Have redirected users's desktop &amp;&nbsp;mydocuments (folder redirection) to shared folders on this DC only. <br />
Have others shared folders too with different security permissions on the same DC.<br />
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Now I have setup an additional domain &nbsp;controller for fault tolerance/ replication.<br />
How to replicate these redirected &amp;&nbsp;shared folders to additional DC? I have a NAS too, may use that too if you suggest. (<a href="http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/datasheet/en/RN100.pdf" rel="ugc">http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/datasheet/en/RN100.pdf</a>) <br />
I guess, I should setup Distributed File System (DFS) Replication.<br />
But how to migrate all these redirected folders without disturbing users to DFS?
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I have a windows 2012 R2 virtual machine as a Domain controller.
On this DC I have installed windows server essential https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/dn280940.aspx 
Have redirected users's desktop & mydocuments (folder redirection) to shared folders on this DC only. 
Have others shared folders too with different security permissions on the same DC.

Now I have setup an additional domain  controller for fault tolerance/ replication.
How to replicate these redirected & shared folders to additional DC? I have a NAS too, may use that too if you suggest. (http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/datasheet/en/RN100.pdf) 
I guess, I should setup Distributed File System (DFS) Replication.
But how to migrate all these redirected folders without disturbing users to DFS?

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