On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:36:29PM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Die, 02 Aug 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:10:28PM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > > > Package: samba > > > Version: 3.0.14a-6 > > > Severity: important > > > Tags: patch > > > > > this also applies to the samba of the stable debian distri. > > > > > samba uses many .tdb files, and there is a nice small tool within the > > > package to dump those files, or check them. > > > > > but there is no tool to dump them, rotate them .. if written a small > > > shell script which should included in some cron. > > > > No, these are not log files that need to be rotated (expired) for space > > reasons, and it's not appropriate for individual packages to attempt to > > impose backup policies for the system.
> the manpage of tdbbackup itself claims that the tool should run in the samba > startup script to verify the tdb files. No, it says that the tool *may* be used at various points to verify the tdb files. > if the tdb files not dumped there is no way of rescue the system. Rescue it from what, exactly? In practice, tdb corruption is not at all common in the absence of a filesystem bug, so I don't see any reason to create such backup files outside of a system backup routine. > other packages like cyrus provide nice tools which allows the user to > simple dump all the databases to get an valid state disk. Well, tdbbackup is a tool that allows you to do this; but it is not a sensible default behavior for the packages for this to be done automatically for you. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
