[Samba] What to backup on PDC with security=user
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Feb 16 07:32:07 MST 2011
thank you for the response, see below.
On 02/16/2011 08:21 AM, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, Robert,
>
> Du meintest am 16.02.11:
>> Burned once and all that. I am setting up rsync cron jobs to back up
>> what I would need to completely rebuild the server.
>> My PDC is running with security=user. I know I have to backup:
>> /home
>> ..../netlogon
>> ..../profiles
>> /etc/passwd (and shadow, how to do this with rsync?)
>> /etc/groups (ditto)
>> What else?
> Command:
> net getlocalsid> localsid.txt
And on a rebuild, how do I use this sid instead of whatever a new system
creates?
> Files:
> /etc/samba/private/passdb.tdb
> /etc/samba/private/secrets.tdb
These are in /var/lib/samba/private on Fedora 12; along with
schannel_store.tdb
And what about all the other .tdb files I see one level down?
> /etc/samba/smb.conf
>
> (and/or perhaps the whole "/etc/samba" directory)
I am using the Amahi system and it builds these from its sql database
that I am separately backing up.
> Do you use LDAP? Then there ist still more to backup.
No, I thought that the 'security=user' means that it is using /etc/passwd.
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