[Samba] AD Backup in cron

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Dec 9 07:19:09 UTC 2022


On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 08:43 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger via samba
wrote:
> I use Louis' scripts from https://github.com/thctlo/samba4 to backup my 
> DCs per cronjob.
> 
> Can't remember when but I remember someone (Louis himself?) to notice 
> that his backup script wasn't good enough anymore or something.
> 
> The Samba Wiki brings this:
> 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Back_up_and_Restoring_a_Samba_AD_DC
> 
> So what is the recommended way to automate this?
> 
> Run the command for the online-backup from a script, with the password 
> in the script?
> 
> What is best practice here? Thanks in advance, Stefan
> 

samba-tool domain backup offline should be entirely reasonable to run
from cron.

Andrew Bartlett

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