[Samba] upgrading samba

[Joel Franco Guzmán]

Hummm. Build from scratch..

I understand that the data files live in /var/lib (except the bind,
where it lives in /var/cache/bind). But if your files are there...

You should pay attention in the *tdb files yes. This are the data
files, and the files that live in /etc.

2009/9/22 Bill Szkotnicki <bszk at uoguelph.ca>:
> 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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