Backing up samba4

[Rowland Penny]

On 19/09/12 18:03, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 15:31 +0100, 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".
>>>
>>> I think for the tdb/ldb files tdbdump is a must.
>>>
>>> In my backup script I run tdbbackup for all that files to generate the
>>> *.bak of them and then tar the whole to a save place (with ext. ACLs).
>>> So I can copy it back and have a hopefully save backup of the
>>> databases if neccessary.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Rowlands initial question, how to to restore tdbbackup files:
>>> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2012-June/167878.html
>>>
>>> I haven't tried it yet. But let me know if tdbrestore is the working way.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Marc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi, the one thing about samba 4 you can be sure of, is that you will get
>> confused easily ;-)
>>
>> on one hand:
>>
>> On 19/09/12 12:17, Ricky Nance wrote:
>>   >
>>   >  Yes simply removing the .bak will be sufficient, you can also use
>> tdbrestore.
>>   >
>>
>> on the other hand:
>>
>> Marc posts a link to a previous post that says:
>>
>> Use tdbrestore to restore tdb files.
>> tdbback dbname.tdb>  dbname-backup
>> tdbrestore dbname.tdb<  dbname-backup
>>
>> Is what Ricky Nance wrote correct, can you just remove the .bak? or
>> would it be better to use tdbrestore and if so, are the given commands
>> correct?
> Ricky is correct in this instance.
>
> tdbbackup creates a second, live and ready-to-use tdb that can then be
> copied because nothing else is using it.  The other command pair you are
> trying to refer to to tdbdump and tdbrestore, which creates a larger
> text file representations of the data, and creates a fresh tdb from that
> text file.  These are really more development tools, but could be useful
> in some very, very low level debugging situations.  This is not needed
> for typical backup/restore.
>
> In the link provided, Amitay got the tdbbakcup and tdbdump tools
> confused.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
Thanks Andrew, but I now have one more question, I have a lot of .tdb 
files in /usr/local/samba/var/lock
& /usr/local/samba/var/locks , there are also some wins.* files in the 
locks dir. Do these need backing up?

Rowland


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