[Samba] Backup of winbindd ID map

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Tue Mar 12 02:09:03 GMT 2002


Goetz Rieger wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I know that has been discussed before, but I would like to give it a new
> try.
> 
> I am in the process of setting up a Samba 2.2.3a Fileserver with winbindd.
> And I would make pretty sure that I am not going to loose the idmap.tdb
> due to filesystem corruption or by any other means. The very thought of
> that really scares me...;-)
> 
> What is the best way to backup that important piece of data and to avoid
> to backup a maybe corrupted database?

See the tdbbackup work currently in progress in HEAD.

Expect some futher movement for things like a plain-text output tool as
well.

Andrew Bartlett

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