Fwd: How to backup samba4

Gémes Géza geza at kzsdabas.hu
Tue Aug 28 10:59:16 MDT 2012


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> As quoted by :
> Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at samba.org <mailto:metze at samba.org>
>
> 	
> Aug 24
>
> "Please not that you should never restore a dc from backup
> if at least one other dc is still working! If you do that
> you'll corrupt the directory as the replication meta data
> get out of sync!
>
> The best would be a restore command that would change the invocationId,
> and reset the highestCommitedUsn, this is what windows is doing on
> restore... "
>
> If you have an active DC, join it like a secondary and let it 
> replicate, then you will be back up and running :) (At least that is 
> my understanding of replication)
>
> Ricky
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Gémes Géza <geza at kzsdabas.hu 
> <mailto:geza at kzsdabas.hu>> wrote:
>
>     2012-08-28 17:34 keltezéssel, steve írta:
>
>         On 24/08/12 13:31, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>
>             On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 13:04 +0200, Stefan (metze)
>             Metzmacher wrote:
>
>                 Am 23.08.2012 22:50, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
>
>                     On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:30 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld
>                     wrote:
>
>
>
>                     There is actually already a script for this:
>
>                     source4/scripting/bin/samba_backup
>
>
>         How about the restore process?
>         1. Stop samba
>         2. 'unbzip' the 3 backup files
>         3. rsync them back to etc, sysvol and private respectively
>
>         Does that sound OK?
>
>         Cheers,
>         Steve
>
>     Only if the box to restore is the only Samba4/WindowsAD in your
>     forest.
>
>     Regards
>
>     Geza Gemes
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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