[Samba] how to backup samba ad domain

L.P.H. van Belle belle at bazuin.nl
Tue Jul 26 14:38:51 UTC 2016


Hai Kevin,

I to have more dc's but same as what your saying.. 
> In general that's fine if all you care about is being able to recreate a
> failed DC (after hardware failure or bad system update). It's no use in
> protecting you against user/sysadmin error where you make large, but
> unwanted changes to your directory (like accidentally deleting 200 users)
> and you want to reset it to the previous day's state.

For that, check :
https://github.com/thctlo/samba4 

and run it in cron as much u want. 

Result is like what you want, im ok with 5 backups a day. 
(next to the normal backups) 

>ls 
samba-2016-07-18-0.tar.bz2
samba-2016-07-18-1.tar.bz2
samba-2016-07-18-2.tar.bz2
samba-2016-07-18-3.tar.bz2
samba-2016-07-18-4.tar.bz2

samba-2016-07-19-0.tar.bz2
samba-2016-07-19-1.tar.bz2
samba-2016-07-19-2.tar.bz2
samba-2016-07-19-3.tar.bz2
samba-2016-07-19-4.tar.bz2


Greetz, 

Louis





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