samba - Jul 2024 - Recover DC from backup

Dear all,

Quick question. Imagine a 4 DC infrastructure on LXC containers. All working as
expected.

Suddenly a DC in container is accidentally deleted.??The obvious solution - and
what I would do - is remote-demote the lost DC, create a new container and
rejoin.

?However, there are plenty of daily backups of this lost machine. Would it be
aceptable to just get the container from yesterday?s backup and fire it up ?
Very little or no changes have been made in the last few days.

Thanks,

This can cause inconsistencies. Backups are only to be used to restore an entire
domain in case all DCs are dead. Otherwise rejoin DCs.
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Back_up_and_Restoring_a_Samba_AD_DC#Restoring_the_domain
Joachim
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> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Quick question. Imagine a 4 DC infrastructure on LXC containers. All
working
> as expected.
> 
> Suddenly a DC in container is accidentally deleted.  The obvious solution -
and
> what I would do - is remote-demote the lost DC, create a new container and
> rejoin.
> 
>  However, there are plenty of daily backups of this lost machine. Would it
be
> aceptable to just get the container from yesterday?s backup and fire it up
?
> Very little or no changes have been made in the last few days.
> 
> Thanks,
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