Guest Filipe Matias Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Hello, We have a client that is placing 6 new servers on their network in diferent branches. They have a share that they always want to be exactly the same on all servers( if they update it they want to replicate for all servers). Can DFS be used for this? Thanks
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Re: DFS Question DFS-R (R for replication), to be exact, if you want all shares in all 6 servers to have the same data. if you want all clients to be using the same PATH to access the folder, then use DFS-N (N for namespace). :) -- Jabez Gan Microsoft MVP: Windows Server http://www.msblog.org "Filipe Matias" <filipe.matias@unitek.pt> wrote in message news:u$w8MxMmIHA.5368@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > We have a client that is placing 6 new servers on their network in > diferent branches. > They have a share that they always want to be exactly the same on all > servers( if they update it they want to replicate for all servers). > Can DFS be used for this? > > Thanks
Guest Filipe Matias Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Re: DFS Question Jabez Gan [MVP] wrote: > DFS-R (R for replication), to be exact, if you want all shares in all 6 > servers to have the same data. > > if you want all clients to be using the same PATH to access the folder, > then use DFS-N (N for namespace). > > :) > Does DFS-R require much bandwidth? This is to be implemented using 512Kb WAN links but only 2 or 3 files are changed per day.
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted April 8, 2008 Posted April 8, 2008 Re: DFS Question No, DFS-R doesn't need much bandwidth. it uses a compression algorithm where only the changed bits of the files will be transferred (instead of transferring the whole file all over again). :) -- Jabez Gan Microsoft MVP: Windows Server http://www.msblog.org "Filipe Matias" <filipe.matias@unitek.pt> wrote in message news:uCjdwUNmIHA.2304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Jabez Gan [MVP] wrote: >> DFS-R (R for replication), to be exact, if you want all shares in all 6 >> servers to have the same data. >> >> if you want all clients to be using the same PATH to access the folder, >> then use DFS-N (N for namespace). >> >> :) >> > Does DFS-R require much bandwidth? This is to be implemented using 512Kb > WAN links but only 2 or 3 files are changed per day.
Guest Filipe Matias Posted April 8, 2008 Posted April 8, 2008 Re: DFS Question Jabez Gan [MVP] wrote: > No, DFS-R doesn't need much bandwidth. it uses a compression algorithm > where only the changed bits of the files will be transferred (instead of > transferring the whole file all over again). :) > Well, i put together a lab and have been testing( in a local lan for now)DFS-R and N. My only question at the moment is: I update a file in my main server and it replicates to all servers. If thet file is open in one of the servers what will happen to the file?
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted April 9, 2008 Posted April 9, 2008 Re: DFS Question If the file is locked, correct me if I'm wrong (it's been a while since I got this question), the file will not get replicated. :) -- Jabez Gan Microsoft MVP: Windows Server http://www.msblog.org "Filipe Matias" <filipe.matias@unitek.pt> wrote in message news:OUjGOQZmIHA.3636@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Jabez Gan [MVP] wrote: >> No, DFS-R doesn't need much bandwidth. it uses a compression algorithm >> where only the changed bits of the files will be transferred (instead of >> transferring the whole file all over again). :) >> > Well, i put together a lab and have been testing( in a local lan for > now)DFS-R and N. My only question at the moment is: I update a file in my > main server and it replicates to all servers. If thet file is open in one > of the servers what will happen to the file?
Guest Filipe Matias Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 Re: DFS Question Jabez Gan [MVP] wrote: > If the file is locked, correct me if I'm wrong (it's been a while since > I got this question), the file will not get replicated. :) > Thanks for all your help Jabez. It is amazing that MS does not include DFS in its MOC
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 Re: DFS Question You are always welcome, Filipe. :) -- Jabez Gan Microsoft MVP: Windows Server http://www.msblog.org "Filipe Matias" <filipe.matias@unitek.pt> wrote in message news:eZigdExmIHA.3636@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Jabez Gan [MVP] wrote: >> If the file is locked, correct me if I'm wrong (it's been a while since I >> got this question), the file will not get replicated. :) >> > Thanks for all your help Jabez. It is amazing that MS does not include DFS > in its MOC
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