Hi list I recently encountered errors while trying to backup the samba4 AD. Apparently tar had some problems with sockets in the samba4 directory. I modified the samba4 backup script, perhaps this or a similar change is good to include upstream? Cheers Simon Oosthoek -------------- next part -------------- #!/bin/sh ##################################################### # THIS FILE IS DISTRIBUTED BY PUPPET # ##################################################### # # Copyright (C) Matthieu Patou <mat at matws.net> 2010-2011 # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. # FROMWHERE=/var/lib/samba4/ WHERE=/var/backup/samba4/ if [ -n "$1" ] && [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--usage" ]; then echo "samba_backup [provisiondir] [destinationdir]" echo "Will backup your provision located in provisiondir to archive stored in destinationdir" echo "Default provisiondir: $FROMWHERE" echo "Default destinationdir: $WHERE" exit 0 fi [ -n "$1" -a -d "$1" ]&&FROMWHERE=$1 [ -n "$2" -a -d "$2" ]&&WHERE=$2 DIRS="private sysvol" #Number of days to keep the backup DAYS=90 WHEN=$(date +%d%m%y) if [ ! -d $WHERE ]; then echo "Missing backup directory $WHERE" exit 1 fi if [ ! -d $FROMWHERE ]; then echo "Missing or wrong provision directory $FROMWHERE" exit 1 fi cd $FROMWHERE for d in $DIRS;do relativedirname=$(find . -type d -name "$d" -prune) n=$(echo $d | sed 's,/,_,g') if [ "$d" = "private" ]; then find $relativedirname -name "*.ldb.bak" -exec rm {} \; for ldb in $(find $relativedirname -name "*.ldb"); do if tdbbackup $ldb then : else echo "Error while backuping $ldb" exit 1 fi done find "$relativedirname" -type f -o -type d |grep -v '\.ldb$' |cpio --quiet -o --format=tar |bzip2 >"$WHERE/samba4_${n}.$WHEN.tar.bz2" if [ ! -f "$WHERE/samba4_${n}.$WHEN.tar.bz2" ] || [ $(stat -c "%s" "$WHERE/samba4_${n}.$WHEN.tar.bz2") -eq 0 ]; then echo "Error while archiving ${WHERE}/samba4_${n}.${WHEN}.tar.bz2" exit 1 fi find $relativedirname -name "*.ldb.bak" -exec rm {} \; else find "$relativedirname" -type f -o -type d |cpio --quiet -o --format=tar |bzip2 >"$WHERE/${n}.$WHEN.tar.bz2" if [ ! -f "$WHERE/${n}.$WHEN.tar.bz2" ] || [ $(stat -c "%s" "$WHERE/${n}.$WHEN.tar.bz2") -eq 0 ]; then echo "Error while archiving ${WHERE}/${n}.${WHEN}.tar.bz2" exit 1 fi fi done find $WHERE -name "samba4_*bz2" -mtime +$DAYS -exec rm {} \; >/dev/null 2>&1