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by california dead head

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I have 2 w2000 Domain controllers. Server1 has users directories on it. Server2 is a second (backup) domain controller in case server1 catches on fire and burns. I want to set up file replication so the users files on server1 are replicated to server2. And then changes made during the day are replcated to the server2. Ideas????? All helpful answers will get points

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by netuser

Implement File Replication Service on your servers. This will replicate the system volumes on all your domain controllers automatically. Then add a replica Dfs servers to replicate data in your domain dfs links. This is done by right-clicking the dfs root in the DFS manager tool, click new, and then click replica. Enter the UNC path for the replica server and share. After that you need to enable the Dfs replication by right-clicking the Dfs root in the DFS snap-in, then select replication policy. Highlight all the servers in the replica set that you want to include to replicate, then click Enable.

by joseph moore

I am old fashioned, and I dislike all file replication services. There ain't nothin' better than a good old-fashioned scheduled XCOPY job!
I do this with my file server in my main office and at a backup file server at a remote office. Every day, I have a scheduled job that runs. It does an XCOPY of the entire directory structure for my user directories.
I use several XCOPY switches, ones for overwriting the destionation files with the new replicated ones, as well as copy all directories, andto suppress overwrite prompt messages.
Personally, it works well. It has saved me several times when users accidentally delete their files.

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