Topic: PDC/BDC? & OnStream ADR2

[Richard Frank]

Hello All,

I'm fairly new to all the Linux world so just stick with me...

The story so far:

I've been working at this company for a few months now as their IT co-ordinator like type person. As I'm not the worlds most experienced IT person I've been struggling away with the so called NT 'server' we have. Managed to get us a BDC up and running although dir replication services just won't work plus a number of other things.

Anyway, I'm gonna ditch the NT boxes in favour of a couple of SME V5.5 servers. After all I only need a server to do file and print serve jobs so I don't see a need for NT. All our email and internet run through a Netpilot box, which I'm happy to note is linux based

I have a couple of questions that I can't seem to find answers to, any help would be more than appreciated:

1) Is it possible to have the PDC / BDC kind of setup. i.e. BDC mirroring the data on the PDC ? I can't seem to find a facility to do this ?
2) Does anyone know if the 60Gb Onstream ADR2 drive I have will be supported? If not is there a way that I can get some sort of backup function to happen on one of our MS clients ?

Many thanks.

Regards,

Richard Frank

[chris meredith]

You will probably want to go check out the Samba Documentation on http://samba.org .  Lots of info there and on the web on setting up a domain controller.

As for the tape drive, it looks like Onstream supports several models under Linux, though you may have to go with a 2.4 kernel.  Check out http://www.onstream.com/linux/index.shtml

[Abe Loveless]

I was recently made aware of Unison.  Apparently, it will mirror directories, between multiple servers.  I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting.

http://www.ifost.org.au/~peterw/

(I don't think this will help if you want to mirror users, but the data/ibays might be ok.)

[Richard Frank]

Chris,
Yeah looks like OnStream do support it. I just want sure if SME v5.5 would. I'm not that sure about changing Kernels etc ya see. I just needed it to work. I think I'm gonna have to learn Linux from scratch pretty dam quick

Abe,
Unison works like a charm. I've managed to run it on my XP machine this morning. Gonna try Linux version when I'm a bit more comfortable playing around with it.

Thanks for your help guys.

Cheers

Rich