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

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Tue Aug 12 22:50:28 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:20:16PM +0200, Noèl Köthe wrote:
> > > > 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.

> IMHO the user/admin isn't aware of this. They run a backup of /var which
> might be not enough.
> It doesn't cost us anything and might help sometimes.

Why would a backup of /var not be sufficient, given that this is where the
tdb files are stored, and how would creating tdbbackups also under /var
help?

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