Hello, how to correctly make full and fully working samba backup? I read articles and newsgroups seeing how many people failed because something was forgotten to be copied or saved and restored/merged. Usually password and user accounts does not work. What I found is most people copy: /etc/samba the smarter copy also: /home geeks knows they should also copy: /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/groups and /var/lib/samba where tdb files are kept.
Looking at these gathered files I think I should also store file rights and user/owner of each file. Finally I should merge: /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/groups on new system with these I backed up from older system. How to copy files from users' accounts at /home/* if files created by M$ Windows have characters in file names Linux can not handle during copy? How to preserve windows file rights when migrating samba from Linux to Linux? I hope I identified all problems which may happen... If not tell me what I missed and tell me how to fix such problem. Did I miss something or this is full list of operations to be done to have fully working samba backup? have a nice day, zbiggy -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
