Hi Rick, here's a small excerpt from the tdbbackup man page:
> The tdbbackup utility can safely be run at any time. It was designed so that it can be used at any > time to validate the integrity of tdb files, even during Samba operation. There is no need to stop samba during backup creation. regards Marten Am 08.10.2010 22:28, schrieb Rick Gates: > Hi, > > We are a small company, which has just started using samba. > Recently we have faced a few issues regarding the TDBs getting corrupted. > I have read that the only way of getting around this issue, is to regularly > take tdbbackups. > But, this process needs a downtime of my samba server, which we would not > want. > > Instead, is there a way where I can take the tdbbackup with out shutting > down samba server. > That is, perhaps a way by which we just effectively shutdown TDBs one by > one, taking there backups. > If that is possible, then we can schedule this activity at the time when the > load on the server is at the lowest point. > > I tried to google it but could not find anything about this. > Any ideas/thoughts on how can we take tdbbackups without shutting down > samba? > > Regards, > Rick -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
