Backing up samba4

[Marc Muehlfeld]

Am 19.09.2012 19:03, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> tdbbackup creates a second, live and ready-to-use tdb that can then be
> copied because nothing else is using it.  The other command pair you are
> trying to refer to to tdbdump and tdbrestore, which creates a larger
> text file representations of the data, and creates a fresh tdb from that
> text file.  These are really more development tools, but could be useful
> in some very, very low level debugging situations.  This is not needed
> for typical backup/restore.

If I can just rename the *.ldb.bak to *.ldb then it's easy in a case of 
restore. And I can get a backup of the databases without shuting down samba.

But then I have a question for curiosity: Are the files compacted or something 
by tdbbackup? Because I saw, that the *.bak files are always smaller then the 
originals:

-rw-------  1 root root 412K  8. Sep 09:46 account_policy.tdb
-rw-------  1 root root  36K 13. Sep 20:55 account_policy.tdb.bak
-rw-------  1 root root 516K  8. Sep 09:46 registry.tdb
-rw-------  1 root root  52K 13. Sep 20:55 registry.tdb.bak
-rw-------  1 root root 412K 12. Sep 17:19 share_info.tdb
-rw-------  1 root root  48K 13. Sep 20:55 share_info.tdb.bak

Regards,
Marc




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