[Samba] upgrading samba

[Bill Szkotnicki]

Thanks.
In my case the .tdb files are in "/var/cache/samba"
Is there a possibility that there are other files anywhere else?
1) /etc/samba
2) /var/cache/samba

I was thinking of building from sources and then just trying the new daemon.
That way I could go back to the old one easily if necessary.


Joel Franco Guzmán wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use debian but this should be similar.
>
> To backup your important files, backup the /etc/samba and
> /var/lib/samba directories doing like this, after stop the samba
> daemon:
>
> # cp -a /var/lib/samba /var/lib/samba.bak
> # cp -a /etc/samba /etc/samba.bak
>
> Then you could do the upgrade. If something goes wrong, reinstall the
> old version and restore the copied directories.
>
> Regards,
>
> # cp -a /var/lib/samba /var/lib/samba.bak
> # cp -a /etc/samba /etc/samba.bak
>
> Then you could do the upgrade. If something goes wrong, reinstall
>
> 2009/9/21 Bill Szkotnicki <bszk at uoguelph.ca>:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to appempt a SAFE upgrade on my samba server. ( Centos 5.2 )
>> Currently the version is:
>> # /usr/sbin/smbd -V
>> Version 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1
>>
>> There are many users logging on to it and accessing the shares.
>>
>>
>> The last time I tried this ( quite a while ago )
>> something broke and we had to re-join many windows machines.
>>
>> It would be nice to have a strategy for rolling back if something does not
>> work.
>> Where are all of the important files?
>>
>> Would anyone have any advice, suggestions, indications of what to read,
>> etc...?
>>
>> Thanks, Bill
>>
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