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...I am running Centos's samba-4.9.1-6.el7.x86_64 as a PDC. There is a basic backup routine which backs up all files under /var/lib/samba but this appears to be wasteful, especially as gencache.tdb keeps growing until I delete. I can find a Samba3 reference at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/TDB_Locations but it does not cover all Samba4 files such as smbprofile.tdb. I can see gencache.tdb is not needed - I have to delete it regularly as it keeps growing. There was a thread in the mailing lists https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2018-September/218367.html and this seems to suggest you need n...

...t one of these may have been caused by a very old smbpasswd file in /var/lib/samaba/private since the post-upgrade uid was the same as was in this ancient file. This led me to try and clean out old/unused files from the directory. I found a list of tdb locations at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/TDB_Locations and removed the ntdrivers, ntforms, ntprinters, and unexpected tdbs since they were marked as being removed in 3.6. It's been several days since upgrading and running "ls -ltu" shows that the following tdb files have not been accessed post-upgrade and I was wondering if they can safe...