How to backup samba4

[Rowland Penny]

On 24/08/12 12:00, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Am 24.08.2012 12:12, schrieb Rowland Penny:
>> Hi, this reply was succinct and to the point but really did not tell 
>> us much,
>> yes it told us that it was no good as a backup, but it did not tell 
>> us why not!
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> Because you have open databases, while samba is running. See Andrews 
> answer to my initial question of this thread:
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> Am 23.08.2012 22:50, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> >> - How do I backup samba4 (databases, etc.) while it's running?
> >
> > Use tdbbackup on each ldb file.
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> Regards,
> Marc
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Ah, oops I missed that. But how about this, use the script to backup the 
ldb files to a directory inside /usr/local/samba, then rsync 
/usr/local/samba excluding the running ldb files. Would this work?

Rowland


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