best practices: automatic backups of .tdb files with samba 3.0?

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Mon Nov 21 15:55:48 GMT 2005


> | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=111148952808956&w=2
>
> An addendum to the original message:
>
> New tdbs:
>
> 	eventlog/*tdb 	Records of Eventlog entries.
> 			In most circumstances this is
> 			just a cache of system logs.
> 	perfmon/*tdb	Performance Counters
>
>
> The full list of tdb files that should be backed up
> are:
>
> 	nt{printers,forms,drivers}.tdb
> 	account_policy.tdb
> 	group_mapping.tdb
> 	share_info.tdb
> 	winbindd_idmap.tdb
> 	registry.tdb
>
> And of course secrets.tdb and passdb.tdb (if present).

I will add this information to the HOWTO and the ByExample books.

- John T.


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