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Thanks for all the responses so far! It seems like lots of people are doing Mobile Accounts and then syncing at logout (which is, btw, the way Windows seems to do it when OS X serves Roaming Profiles to Windows users).
Does anybody actually mount their users home directories over the network and actually serve the files live like that?
(the xserve and production machines are all going to be on a gigabit switch, btw).
Thanks again!
So is this the idea?
Server A – OD Master; Server B – OD Replica, filemaker server.
Server A goes down; we switch the FC cable to Server B, bring up Server A’s ip (via multihoming) on Server B. Make Server B the master.
That all?
To me, Mobile Homes is kind of like not using NHD — the data is all still stored locally, and has to be synced by some means we hatch ourselves. It’s nice to have centralized policy control, but we really need a way to backup local directories and NHD is the cleanest best way, IMHO.
We’ll definitely take advantage of Tiger’s implementation, which seems to be more “iDisk-Syncing-esque.”
I don’t have an FC Switch, so can I do this manually, by moving the FC cable from Server A to Server B, and let ip failover do its other magic?
Another question: Can the failover server do other things, like Filemaker serving, etc. while it’s not needed for the failover? Or does it have to be a “Vice President” — waiting patiently, doing nothing, until its needed?
Hm. So, theoretically: with Server B acting as OD Replica, I could:
– change Server B from replica to master;
– put XRaid FC Connection into Server B;
– change dns so Server A’s traffic goes to Server B;Would that, in theory, bring everybody back up again until I can fix whatever ails Server A?
Also, more generally, in your opinion, are the benefits of Network Home Dirs worth the freezing-cold fear that everything can scew up at once?
Many, Many thanks.
