[PATCH: Domain backup samba-tool command]

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon May 14 05:06:27 UTC 2018


On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 12:50 +1000, William Brown via samba-technical
wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 17:59 +1300, Aaron Haslett via samba-technical
> wrote:
> > The exists shell script for backing up a domain doesn't lock things
> > properly while doing the backup and could end up with a corrupt
> > backup
> > or cause a lockup.  Here's a new python script that actually works,
> > along with tests and required fixes.
> > 
> 
> Hey there,
> 
> At a quick glance this looks like a useful feature.
> 
> My concern is that you can't assert a backup is succesful unless you
> can *restore* from it.

Metze raised essentially the same issue and the restore tool to those
specifications has been built.  

We are now just trying to dribble in the patches one at a time as they
parts become ready and as review resources are available.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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