Upgrading from S4-alpha12

[titantoppler at gmail.com]

Hi Mathieu,

What exactly does this patch do?

This might be relevant - due to a poor design decision at the start, I'm
using the posix:eadb option in my smb.conf, which IIRC stores the ACLs in a
file. Does that change things materially?

Thanks!

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Matthieu Patou <mat at samba.org> wrote:

> On 03/06/2012 10:13 AM, titantoppler at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm attempting to upgrade from my (very old) installation of S4 alpha 12,
>> to the current build of S4.
>>
>> After pulling down the latest source and compiling+installing, I'm doing
>> the 'upgradeprovision --full' step to upgrade the database.
>>
>> However, I'm running out of space. Upon further investigation, I realised
>> that this step seemed to be copying the 'sysvol' folder to a
>> /usr/local/samba/private/**backupprovision(some-random-**letters). Since
>> my
>> users' data files are really huge, doing so fills out my hard disk really
>> quickly.
>>
>> Why is this happening (meaning the need to copy the files) - I had thought
>> the provisioning step would be upgrading the database only, without
>> touching my files? Is there a way around that?
>>
> Because upgradeprovision is also changing acl on the sysvol part as they
> used to be very broken.
>
> Try the attached patch and run with --db_backup_only, it should do just
> the backup of the DBs, If you have still issues try with --nontaclfix.
>
> Matthieu
>
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> Matthieu Patou
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>
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