[Samba] sambatool online backups

[Matt Ivie]

On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 08:27 +1300, Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 12:00 -0700, Matt Ivie via samba wrote:
> > The solution given in those threads was to do an offline backup
> > using
> > samba 4.10. I will likely upgrade to samba 4.10 at some point in
> > the
> > future but not at the moment. My question is whether anyone has
> > come
> > up
> > with a way to resolve this issue, or if there is a different way I
> > can
> > backup.
> 
Thanks for the quick response.

> I would *incredibly strongly* recommend an upgrade to a currently
> supported version.
> 
On your advice, I will plan on doing that.

> > Shouldn't I be able to shut down my samba service and make a full
> > backup of the /var/run/samba directory?
> 
> Yes, you can do that but you can't restore from it unless you have
> killed every other DC on the network first.
> 
> The backup tool is designed to get this process right and to automate
> it.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
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Matt Ivie
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