Hey all, I know that has been discussed before, but I would like to give it a new try. I am in the process of setting up a Samba 2.2.3a Fileserver with winbindd. And I would make pretty sure that I am not going to loose the idmap.tdb due to filesystem corruption or by any other means. The very thought of that really scares me...;-) What is the best way to backup that important piece of data and to avoid to backup a maybe corrupted database? -should I stop winbindd and backup the file? -is there a way to dump the contents of the database (the mappings) in a textfile? -any other suggestions? Any tip and hint would be appreciated. Best Regards, Goetz
Goetz Rieger wrote:> > Hey all, > > I know that has been discussed before, but I would like to give it a new > try. > > I am in the process of setting up a Samba 2.2.3a Fileserver with winbindd. > And I would make pretty sure that I am not going to loose the idmap.tdb > due to filesystem corruption or by any other means. The very thought of > that really scares me...;-) > > What is the best way to backup that important piece of data and to avoid > to backup a maybe corrupted database?See the tdbbackup work currently in progress in HEAD. Expect some futher movement for things like a plain-text output tool as well. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:02:09 +1100 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@pcug.org.au> wrote:> See the tdbbackup work currently in progress in HEAD. > > Expect some futher movement for things like a plain-text output tool as > well.I would be delighted... Is the code usable by now? Regards, Goetz -- Goetz Rieger Phone: +49 2241 92917-39 SuSE Linux Solutions AG Fax: 314599 Geschaeftsstelle Rhein-Ruhr Address: Marie-Curie-Str. 11-17, D-53757 St. Augustin