[Samba] backup_samba4 script failing

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Nov 22 15:51:15 UTC 2016


On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:37:52 +0000
Michael Howard via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 22/11/2016 13:22, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:07:14 +0400
> > Mike Lykov via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >> 22.11.2016 16:12, Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba пишет:
> >>> I am testing the backup script found at
> >>> https://github.com/thctlo/samba4/tree/master/backup-script on
> >>> Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS with Samba 4.5.0 (from source) running.
> >> Are this backup method useful only for one-DC domain?
> >> If AD domain runs two or more DC, restore from this backup one of
> >> DCs break replication and something more?
> >>
> > It has its uses in a multi DC domain, you could get replication
> > problems where no DC has a full and correct AD.
> >
> > The Problem I have with 'KEEP_DAYS' in Louis's script is not that it
> > doesn't work, but why would anybody want to keep backups for certain
> > days. The AD database changes frequently, so any backup for 15 days
> > ago could be well out of date.
> >
> >
> In case they unwittingly backed up a corrupt DC?
> 

Good point, perhaps the backup script could check before actually doing
the backup ?

Rowland



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