[Samba] backup AD content

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Aug 30 09:20:24 UTC 2019


On 30/08/2019 10:14, Stefan G. Weichinger via samba wrote:
> On 30.08.19 11:01, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 10:56 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger via samba
>> wrote:
>>> I happily and trustfully use Louis' backup-script from
>>>
>>> https://github.com/thctlo/samba4
>>>
>>> to dump AD content via cronjob.
>>>
>>> Is it necessary/recommended to do that on *each* samba DC? Is there
>>> something server-specific in the dump(s) or is it enough to do that
>>> once
>>> per domain?
>> I'm very sorry to advise that this script is not race-free in the
>> locking done on the AD databases, which is why we have written the
>> 'samba-tool domain backup offline' tool which holds the correct locks.
> Thanks for the info, I will write another cronjob using that tool.
Be prepared to put your administrators password in the cronjob
>
>> You should only need to back up the domain on one DC as long as you are
>> confident the DC is correctly synchronised, including sysvol.
> Ok, fine. IMO I would set that up on the DC holding the FSMO roles?

That would probably be a good decision, though you could use any DC, you 
will be backingup the domain and not the DC.

Rowland






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