[Samba] Online backup of domain fails

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:57:11 +0100
Benedikt Kaleß via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Dear Rowland,
> > Just a thought, Do all the GPO's that exist in AD also exist in
> > Sysvol of the DC you are trying to backup ?
> 
> Yes, I compared the Sysvol-Directories. They are synched correctly,
> all GPO's are exactly the same on both ADs.
> 

That isn't what I meant ;-)

The GPO's are also in AD stored under
'CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=samdom,DC-example,DC=com'

If you have a GPO there that doesn't exist any more, you could get a
problem similar to yours.

Rowland