DFS-R for Web Server Replication-Week 27

You can find this week’s video here.

This week’s video lesson covers the end to end process of installing DFS, adding shared folders, troubleshooting, and watching it in action.

Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R) is a powerful means of keeping the content on multiple servers in sync with each other. There are other options, like Robocopy and various 3rd party tools, but DFS-R is a native Windows App which works beautifully for most replication situations. It’s near immediate, easy to setup, easy to manage, and requires no maintenance.

This week’s video lesson covers the end to end process of installing DFS, adding shared folders, troubleshooting, and watching it in action.

Last week started a mini-series on web farms, so this week lays the foundation for Shared Configuration and other web server content replication discussions.

This is week 27 of a 52 week series for the Web Pro. Past and future videos can be found here: http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/LearnIIS7/

You can find this week’s video here.

2 Comments

  • Thanks Scott. In our environment Web deploy seems to work best since we apply during the day to a master server, then push out the changes after hours (requires app pools to be shut down). After watching your video it seems web deploy is still the best option for us. Thank you again for taking the time to do this.

  • Hi k-dubb. Yes, that's a great solution too. Staging and then using a local copy of some sort gives a fast deploy to production.

    Another option you have is to use DFS for the active nodes and you can push from the master server to one of the live nodes and allow DFS to handle the replication.

    If you have 100% read-only content then a controlled push will serve you well. Where DFS is also handy is when you have writes to the nodes, like if people can upload images, files, etc.

    So I would say that it depends on the situation, but glad that this helped you determine that your existing solution is already the best one for you.

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