best practices: automatic backups of .tdb files with samba 3.0?
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
jerry at samba.org
Mon Nov 21 13:35:48 GMT 2005
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Simo Sorce wrote:
| On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 03:07 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
|> Hi folks,
|>
|> Andrew Bartlett recently brought it to my attention that in Samba
3.0, tdbs
|> are not journalled databases, with the consequence that a server failure
|> (say, power loss) can result in tdb corruption. Since hardware
failures are
|> a fact of life, should we in Debian be automatically backing up the
important
|> .tdbs on a regular basis? What are the best practices of other
distributors
|> in this area?
|
| I remember a post on samba lists with the list
| of databases that should be backed up, if you can't
| find it, please report here, and I will try
| to give you the list.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=111148952808956&w=2
cheers, jerry
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