{"id":9508,"date":"2009-03-11T09:08:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2009-03-11T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"understanding-w2008-dfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9508","title":{"rendered":"Understanding W2008 DFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Barreto of MS has written a long <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/josebda\/archive\/2009\/03\/10\/the-basics-of-the-windows-server-2008-distributed-file-system-dfs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on the basics of Windows Server 2008 Distributed File System.\u00a0 I\u2019m amazed how many people don\u2019t know anything about DFS Namespace or DFS Replication (DFS-R).\u00a0 I was using DFS back in Windows 2003 for the namespace.\u00a0 It meant our logon scripts only had to map one drive even if we had shares all over the place.\u00a0 It also made it easy to move file shares around or even fail over to a DR file server without users even knowing.\u00a0 We also used DFS-R\u2019s predecessor, FRS (File Replication Service) for replicating static data like RIS images and MSI packages.\u00a0 It was <em>flaky!<\/em>\u00a0 DFS-R is a complete re-write and gives block level replication.\u00a0 It can even do some de-duplication if you throw a single Enterprise edition server into the mix via cross-file replication.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Barreto of MS has written a long article on the basics of Windows Server 2008 Distributed File System.\u00a0 I\u2019m amazed how many people don\u2019t know anything about DFS Namespace or DFS Replication (DFS-R).\u00a0 I was using DFS back in Windows 2003 for the namespace.\u00a0 It meant our logon scripts only had to map one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Understanding W2008 DFS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}