[Samba] Samba AD/DC crashed again, third time in as many months

[IT Admin]

Thanks for your input, I could spin up a VM on a workstation but a) it
would be 32bit, and b) current samba ADC is on a 64 bit host... Not sure if
I could restore my backup there it not.

I think I can swap the roles of the current file server and another machine
to get greater resources to play with, so I likely will be implementing the
dual VM approach you outlined in the future but my primary concern at this
moment is to get the domain up again, they need access no later than 8am
tomorrow.

If I can get answers re removing the offending libs from /usr/lib I'll
hopefully me moving forward here in the next couple of hours.

JS
On Mar 3, 2016 2:35 PM, "mj" <lists at merit.unu.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 03/03/2016 06:34 PM, IT Admin wrote:
>
>> So, I need to verify, what is the proper way to remove the unwanted
>> packages in /usr/lib?  Am I trying to remove the correct packages with
>> apt?  Can I simply rename the offending files and reboot?
>>
>
> To be absolutely sure to have about a clean and non-corrupt system, I'd
> reccommend to reinstall on a CLEAN os, without manually renaming/removing
> files.
>
> Just install whatever OS you use, like and know on a empty fresh machine
> (I DO like mdadm raid1, and have only good experiences with it, contrary to
> Rowland) One tip: don't use btrfs for your AD server, use ext4, or xfs.
>
> I really advise to NOT start manually deleting stuff etc on your current
> install. You want to be as safe as possible after your misery. Even a
> unused desktop machine with raid1 will be better than patching your current
> misbehaving machine, is my advise.
>
> That way you'd also be able to seperate AD DC functionality from your
> fileserver. If you want to be REALLY cheap, you could even start like this:
>
> desktop machine, raid one, install kvm, and run TWO dc's on that machine.
> It's very easy to move around those kvm machines to different hosts, if you
> get some budget, or another spare machine.
>
> (but: running two DCs on the same host of course does NOT give you
> redundancy if that host goes down, it could just help against the kind of
> corruption you experienced)
>
> MJ
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
>