Re: Is it possible to replicate manually to a disconnected remote site

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1. No you can not send the AD replication info to tape and sync manually. If you want to do that, set up another domain at the remote site and handle it all manually.

2. Tombstone lifetime applies to every DC in a domain. Once you go beyond it you have all sorts of opportunities for a dorked up directory. It isn't just that the remote site needs to get changes from the main directory, the main directory needs to get changes from the remote site. You may not be aware of changes being made that need to replicate in but they are there regardless of what you know.

If you expect to be disconnected more than a few weeks at a time without replication I do not recommend placing the sites in the same forest.

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m.v.duijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hallo,

We are looking into creating a remote site which will not be connected to the main network for perhaps several months.

I wondered if there is some util which makes it possible to sycn that site "manually" by writing all changes to forinstance tape or file en apply those changes to te remote site.

I read the documentation on disconnecting DC's and reconnecting it before the tombstone lifetime expires etc. This documentation does not apply to us because we do want to replicate so that user accounts made on the main network are also available on the remote site.

thanx in Advance

Mike


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