[Samba] backup script exit with error (probably because of tar warning)

[Elyad Alaei]

As much as I know, yes it is supposed to run while samba itself is running,
but unfortunately I have the same issue even when I STOP the samba process,
most of the time. As the age of server increases, this problem happens more
frequently. When we installed samba, for first few months it happened every
2 or 3 days but now (after 10+ months) it did not took any backup in last 2
months, EVEN WHEN SAMBA SERVICE IS STOPPED!

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Sven Schwedas <sven.schwedas at tao.at>
wrote:

> On 2014-11-12 11:53, Elyad Alaei wrote:
> > I'm afraid, changing the exit condition, inorder to exclude exit code
> with
> > 1, would result in unsafe backups?
>
> The exit code is documented as:
>
> > 1  Some  files  differ.  If tar was invoked with the
> >    --compare (--diff, -d) command line option,  this
> >    means  that some files in the archive differ from
> >    their disk counterparts.  If tar was given one of
> >    the  --create, --append or --update options, this
> >    exit code means  that  some  files  were  changed
> >    while being archived and so the resulting archive
> >    does not contain the exact copy of the file set.
>
> So yes, the cause are changes to the databases while you archive them.
>
> I'm not sure whether the script is supposed to be run while samba itself
> is running, tar cannot backup open tdb/ldb files.
>
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