[Samba] Samba4 LDAP LDB Indexes

[Michael Wood]

Hi

This sounds like a question for the samba-technical list, which is
still the best place to ask about issues with samba 4.  I have copied
my reply there.

On 7 December 2010 08:49, dmcfeeters <domains at fiforms.org> wrote:
>
> I have a system running Samba 4 Alpha 11, and I seem to have a corrupted LDB
> file in my directory. (Probably the result of taking a backup without using
> tdbbackup). Right now, running tdbbackup on the file produces an error
> message similar to the following:
>
> Failed to insert into DC=WWW,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=COM.ldb.bak.tmp
> failed to copy DC=WWW,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=COM.ldb
>
> If I run
>
> ldbsearch -H "DC=WWW,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=COM.ldb" -a > www.example.com.ldif
>
> I get a text file containing a text dump of my directory. I can reload this
> into a new tdb file using ldbadd, but only if I remove the one object called
> @INDEXLIST. Without removing this object, ldbadd simply hangs, and then
> eventually dies with the following error:
>
> ltdb: tdb(newfile.ldb): tdb_transaction_cancel: no transaction
>
> Failed to commit transaction: Failed to store index records in transaction
> commit: Other
>
> So, my question is: am I on the right track in rebuilding this LDB file? I
> know I should have kept a good backup, but right now I would really like to
> recover the file, and it seems that all (or most) of my data is still there,
> if it can only be made accessible. It seems that this should work, but it
> doesn't seem to be importing any indexes, and if the file is not indexed I
> fear that performance will not be acceptable (if it even works at all).
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
>
> ~Daniel

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Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>