[Pkg-samba-maint] daily backup of tdb files with tdbbackup

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > I think we do not loose anythink if we add the something like the
> > suggested "cd /var/lib/samba;tdbbackup *.tdb" to debian/samba.cron.daily
> 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I remain of the opinion that packages should not be in the business
> individually of creating backups of any sort.  I haven't found tdb files to
> be any more fragile, in recent years, than any other binary database, and I
> don't see this kind of backup configuration in other packages.


I also share this feeling and am not particularly enthusiast about
setting some system while this should be the local admin decision to
put it in place.

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