samba - Jul 2014 - Samba 4 AD DC Backup/Recovery success story.

I'd just like to report that by following the howto here 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Backup_and_Recovery step by step I was 
able to move my domain controller from one machine to another by backing 
up and restoring it. It worked immediately and is having absolutely no 
issues. This is a great relief to me as I needed to move my DC off of a 
machine that I'm no longer going to have access to, and I didn't have 
the space or time to do a full partition image of the machine in question.

Hopefully this helps verify that the instructions provided do work very 
well.

I did maintain the same hostname, IP, and base operating system (Debian 
Wheezy), though some of the particulars changed. I also, in order to 
follow the part where it says you should have identical versions, had to 
use git checkout to move the cloned git samba-master tree back to an 
earlier version.

Hello Dylan,

Am 03.07.2014 21:41, schrieb Dylan J. Morrison:
> I'd just like to report that by following the howto here
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Backup_and_Recovery step by step I was
> able to move my domain controller from one machine to another by backing
> up and restoring it. It worked immediately and is having absolutely no
> issues. This is a great relief to me as I needed to move my DC off of a
> machine that I'm no longer going to have access to, and I didn't
have
> the space or time to do a full partition image of the machine in question.
> 
> Hopefully this helps verify that the instructions provided do work very
> well.
thanks for your confirmation, that it's working.



Regards,
Marc