Backing up samba4

[Ricky Nance]

Steve, you are correct with that, it will work fine. I think what most
people want is to not have to stop samba first though, the initial question
indicated this, if I read it correctly. There are likely things missing in
the backup script for acls and extended attributes so keep that in mind
when backing up. Both getfacl and getfattr can export all your acl/xattr
info into a file as well.

Good luck,
Ricky
On Sep 19, 2012 10:23 AM, "steve" <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:

> On 19/09/12 16:31, Rowland Penny wrote:
>
>> On 19/09/12 14:55, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
>>
>>> Am 19.09.2012 15:27, schrieb steve:
>>>
>>>> I just did it on a test LAN. I deleted /usr/local/samba and rsynced it
>>>> back.
>>>> samba fired up fine. xp and w7 clients could log in and GPO's were
>>>> respected.
>>>>
>>>> What is the problem in doing this? It works with openSUSE 12.2. It
>>>> fails with
>>>> ubuntu lts.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I guess it worked, because during the rsync, nothing was changed in the
>>> tdb/ldb files, because it's a small test network. If you have a bigger
>>> network, where the databases often changes, it could happen that this
>>> appears during your rsync. Then you have a corrupt/inconsistent "backup".
>>>
>>
>>  OK guys. Let's keep it simple.
>
> Stop samba and and then rsync the samba directory to somewhere that
> understands acl's. e.g. a 10 Euro usb memory stick formatted with ext4.
>
> Then no one can change anything. Remember, we are talking a single DC for
> one domain.
> cron it at say, 3am when the LAN is not needed anyway.
>
> Delete the whole of /usr/local/samba on your hard drive.
>
> rsync it back from the usb memory.
> Conclusion: you get back to exactly where you were.
> What am I missing?
>
> Cheers, Steve.
>
>