Distributed File System best practices Question.

I have a couple questions about Distributed File System dealing with best
practices.

My primary goal is having the files stored in multiple locations for
Disaster Recovery purposes, and secondly, to provide best file access
performance for some roaming users.

I currently have 2 main locations and 2 secondary locations.

I have a few servers at both locations, I’m concerned here about the 2
primary File Servers

One is MainNorth and the other is MainSouth. The two sites are connected
with a T1

The 2 sencondary sitess both connect to the South location, also with T1’s.

On the D: Drive of both Main servers, I have:

d:\shares\users (with User folders that are shared individually)
d:\shares\groups (with Group folders that are shared individually)
d:\shares\public This folder is shared.

Currently, I have most of the users and groups connection to the MainSouth
fileserver.

(I will be migrating the North users off an old server once I have this
design in place)

If my understanding is correct, for example for the files on MainSouth at
d:\shares\groups\MDT (to pick one group, there are about 20 groups)

I have those shared as \\mainsouth\mdt

I need to set up replication so they are also on MainNorth at
d:\shares\groups\MDT

I then also need to have them shared as \\mainnorth\mdt

And set up a DFS Domain root to both shares, and then I connect the users to
the MDT share as \\domain\mdt

So there are actually 3 shares:
\\mainnorth\mdt
\\mainsouth\mdt
\\domain\mdt

And the one I use for the users is \\domain\mdt

Is this correct so far?

Next:

For the user shares, for example, d:\shares\users\MSmith is currently
shared as \\mainsouth\msmith$.

Is it recommended that I create DFS Domain root shares for each user the
same as above? (fyi, I have about 200 users)

And then also have the user connect to them as \\domain\msmith$

Thanks for the advice.

Chuck




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