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 ?
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