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Hi! i am testing Louis van Belle backup script. it works quite well. Thank you for sharing this! https://github.com/thctlo/samba4/blob/master/backup-script/backup_samba4 but i think there is an error in the KEEP_DAYS code as the string '\-$KEEP_DAY1\-|\-$KEEP_DAY2-' is not interpolated so the egrep does exclude anything from rm call. So no files older than $DAYS are kept... # Remove any files over $DAYS days old from backup dir, keep the $KEEP_DAY1 and $KEEP_DAY2 of the month. if [ ${KEEP_DAYS} = &q...

...er/backup-script    I've updated it, due to bug https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13088   netlogon_creds_cli.tdb will be excluded from the backup. Due to this the script exits and does not backup anything since netlogon_creds_cli.tdb is the first it wanted to backup. ( in my case ).   Keep_days is working now also. Tip here is, set you DAYS high, i've set a default of 60 days now and if KEEP_DAYS="yes" then all files older then 60 days will be removed from the backup, except dates with -01- -15-  .   Update you backup script or please do check if its running as it should....

...useful only for one-DC domain? > If AD domain runs two or more DC, restore from this backup one of DCs > break replication and something more? > It has its uses in a multi DC domain, you could get replication problems where no DC has a full and correct AD. The Problem I have with 'KEEP_DAYS' in Louis's script is not that it doesn't work, but why would anybody want to keep backups for certain days. The AD database changes frequently, so any backup for 15 days ago could be well out of date. Rowland

I am testing the backup script found at https://github.com/thctlo/samba4/tree/master/backup-script on Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS with Samba 4.5.0 (from source) running. When I run: root at dtdc03:/usr/sbin# ./backup_samba4 --debug Command checks : CMD_SAMBA contains : /usr/local/samba/sbin//samba Command checks : CMD_TDBBACKUP contains : /usr/local/samba/bin//tdbbackup Command checks : CMD_LOGGER

...in? >> If AD domain runs two or more DC, restore from this backup one of DCs >> break replication and something more? >> > It has its uses in a multi DC domain, you could get replication > problems where no DC has a full and correct AD. > > The Problem I have with 'KEEP_DAYS' in Louis's script is not that it > doesn't work, but why would anybody want to keep backups for certain > days. The AD database changes frequently, so any backup for 15 days > ago could be well out of date. > > In case they unwittingly backed up a corrupt DC? -- Mike H...