Manually Replicating Directory Partitions

Introduction

In certain situations, it is necessary to manually force a replication for an Active Directory (AD) partition between two domain controllers (DC).

Manually forcing a replication does not create a replication agreement between DCs. For further details, see The Samba KCC.

Manually Replicating Directory Partitions

To manually replicate all AD partitions from domain controller DC1 to DC2:

# samba-tool drs replicate DC2 DC1 dc=samdom,dc=example,dc=com
Replicate from DC1 to DC2 was successful.

# samba-tool drs replicate DC2 DC1 DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
Replicate from DC1 to DC2 was successful.

# samba-tool drs replicate DC2 DC1 CN=Configuration,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
Replicate from DC1 to DC2 was successful.

# samba-tool drs replicate DC2 DC1 DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
Replicate from DC1 to DC2 was successful.

# samba-tool drs replicate DC2 DC1 CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
Replicate from DC1 to DC2 was successful.

By default, the samba-tool drs replicate command replicates only object operations that were not ran on the destination DC. This includes:

• Create new objects
• Updated changed objects
• Delete removed objects

To resynchronise all objects in a partition, pass the --full-sync option to the command.