[Samba] safe to replace just one ldb file?

[Rowland Penny]

On 02/09/14 12:49, mourik jan heupink - merit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Small question: I have removed 177000 deleted objects from our 
> DC=DOMAINDNSZONES,DC=...ldb, effectively reducing it's filesize from 
> 1.1GB to 6.3MB.

How did you remove the deleted objects, did you edit the .ldb files in 
the sam.ldb.d directory ? If so, then you could have damaged your AD, 
you shouldn't edit these directly.

Rowland
>
> Now I would like to replace the big .ldb with the small .ldb.backup
>
> Is it safe to do:
> - service sernet-samba-ad stop
> - tdbbackup DC=DOMAINDNSZONES,DC=...ldb -s .backup
> - mv DC=DOMAINDNSZONES,DC=...ldb DC=DOMAINDNSZONES,DC=...deleted
> - cp DC=DOMAINDNSZONES,DC=...ldb.backup DC=DOMAINDNSZONES,DC=...ldb
> - service sernet-samba-ad start
>
> As in: is it safe to tdbdump one single ldb file, and replace the ldb 
> with the ldb.backup? It will have a newer timestamp than the other ldb 
> files...
>
> Or do I need to tdbbackup them all, and replace them all as well?
>
> MJ