On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:28:55AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Gilles Mocellin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: samba > > Version: 3.0.28a-1 > > Severity: minor
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > > I recently had a corrupted /var/lib/samba/winbind_idmap.tdb file. > > It was not cool to recover. > > I saw a crontab file for (/etc/cron.daily/samba) which backups the > > smbpasswd > > file. > > It could also make a tdbbackup of all files in /var/lib/samba > > and /var/cache/samba. > > It's harmless. Can be run online. And really helpfull in case of corruption. > Well, I agree that losing Winbind's ID mapping database is certainly > not cool at all. > I actually expect every experienced samba admin to backup that file > and some others (I'd actually recommend backing up the entire > /var/lib/samba directory) but at least helping the less experienced > admin could be a good idea. After all, I still remember the days when > I started using winbind and was ignorant about the importance of ID > mapping. > Other maintainers, objections about a daily cron job for winbind to > backup this file ? > Any ideas about other files important enough to be copied and waste > some space in /var/backups ? Actually yes, I do object because I don't think we should be doing piecemeal backups in individual packages. Losing winbind_idmap is bad, but not worse than losing other databases on the system, and I haven't seen that tdbs are noticeably more fragile than other database formats that they should require a separate backup policy from the rest of the system. But I see that you've already reached the same conclusion on your own, so ok then. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
