samba - Jul 2011 - samba4 backup and restore

Hi,

After testing samba4 for few days (works great !!), i'm planning to run 
it as production server for 20 XP clients.

I'm looking for a way to backup all data of the samba4 domain in order 
to restore them after a crash or a bad update.

So, if saving the smb.conf in samba3 was enough, what are the files to 
backup in samba4 ?

thanks for advices

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 01:20 +0200, arakimaru at gmail.com
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After testing samba4 for few days (works great !!), i'm planning to run
> it as production server for 20 XP clients.
> 
> I'm looking for a way to backup all data of the samba4 domain in order 
> to restore them after a crash or a bad update.
> 
> So, if saving the smb.conf in samba3 was enough, what are the files to 
> backup in samba4 ?
It isn't enough to just save the smb.conf in Samba3, and similarly in
Samba4 you must save the databases.  

See source4/scripting/bin/samba_backup for a script to help with this.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org