Hummm. Build from scratch.. I understand that the data files live in /var/lib (except the bind, where it lives in /var/cache/bind). But if your files are there...
You should pay attention in the *tdb files yes. This are the data files, and the files that live in /etc. 2009/9/22 Bill Szkotnicki <b...@uoguelph.ca>: > Thanks. > In my case the .tdb files are in "/var/cache/samba" > Is there a possibility that there are other files anywhere else? > 1) /etc/samba > 2) /var/cache/samba > > I was thinking of building from sources and then just trying the new daemon. > That way I could go back to the old one easily if necessary. > > > Joel Franco Guzmán wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I use debian but this should be similar. >> >> To backup your important files, backup the /etc/samba and >> /var/lib/samba directories doing like this, after stop the samba >> daemon: >> >> # cp -a /var/lib/samba /var/lib/samba.bak >> # cp -a /etc/samba /etc/samba.bak >> >> Then you could do the upgrade. If something goes wrong, reinstall the >> old version and restore the copied directories. >> >> Regards, >> >> # cp -a /var/lib/samba /var/lib/samba.bak >> # cp -a /etc/samba /etc/samba.bak >> >> Then you could do the upgrade. If something goes wrong, reinstall >> >> 2009/9/21 Bill Szkotnicki <b...@uoguelph.ca>: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to appempt a SAFE upgrade on my samba server. ( Centos 5.2 ) >>> Currently the version is: >>> # /usr/sbin/smbd -V >>> Version 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 >>> >>> There are many users logging on to it and accessing the shares. >>> >>> >>> The last time I tried this ( quite a while ago ) >>> something broke and we had to re-join many windows machines. >>> >>> It would be nice to have a strategy for rolling back if something does >>> not >>> work. >>> Where are all of the important files? >>> >>> Would anyone have any advice, suggestions, indications of what to read, >>> etc...? >>> >>> Thanks, Bill >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >>> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >>> >>> > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba