Mirroring samba file server.

[Jeremy Gransden]

This looks like what I need.

thank you,
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 1:57 PM, dweimer <dweimer at dweimer.net> wrote:
> On 2015-12-18 12:32 pm, Jeremy Gransden wrote:
>>
>> I have a network with 8 remote sites. 7 of the 8 can use the main
>> samba file server without much issue with latency. I have one location
>> where the latency is really high. I was thinking of adding a 2nd samba
>> server in that location and mirroring the 1st one. Has anyone done a
>> setup similar to this? What should I use to sync the 2 servers? Both
>> servers will be running FreeBSD 10.2 on ZFS. Would zfs send/receive
>> work on live data or would rsync be better?
>>
>>
>> thanks for your help,
>> j
>
>
> You need to describe more about what you are trying to do, I don't believe
> neither ZFS send/receive or rsync will work if you want to be able to edit
> data on both and keep them in sync. However if the remote server is going to
> serve read only reference data for the site, and changes are only made to
> the parent they will work. However ZFS may require the receiving dataset to
> be dismounted in order to receive the changes, but I could be wrong.
>
> You may also want to look at /usr/ports/net/unison:
>
> cat /usr/ports/net/unison/pkg-descr
> Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two
> replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different
> hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then
> brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
>
> Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration
> management packages (CVS, PRCS, etc.) distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.)
> uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.) and other synchronizers
> (Intellisync, Reconcile, etc).
>
> --
> Thanks,
>    Dean E. Weimer
>    http://www.dweimer.net/