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Sync'ing a folder over network

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Name: djx01dlob
Date: August 24, 2005 at 09:20:36 Pacific
OS: SERVER 2003
CPU/Ram: 512meg
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Hi,

I have 2 servers, and use one as a backup server, at the moment i manaully copy all the folders i want tbackuped up over the network.

How can i set it up so every 12 hours it copied wats in a folder into a folder on another server on the network?

Darren

Thanks,



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Name: heropsycho2177
Date: August 24, 2005 at 10:46:09 Pacific
Reply:

Distributed File System (DFS) replicas would work.

"It happens."


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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer
Date: August 24, 2005 at 10:51:02 Pacific
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batch file for the copy scheduled every 12 hours with the scheduler service.


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Response Number 3
Name: heropsycho2177
Date: August 24, 2005 at 11:34:15 Pacific
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It can if you know that the newer file will always be on one of the particular servers should data ever change. Otherwise, that would be difficult to resolve conflicting versions of the same file.

"It happens."


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Response Number 4
Name: djx01dlob
Date: August 24, 2005 at 11:45:01 Pacific
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I would like to use DFS if poss because its built in.

How do i go abpuot doing it?

Darren

Thanks,


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Response Number 5
Name: heropsycho2177
Date: August 24, 2005 at 17:57:00 Pacific
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/dfsguide.mspx

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