Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> > /etc/samba/* >> >> Samba has some important stuff in /var/ >> /var/lib/samba >> /var/run/samba >> /var/spool/samba >> /var/cache/samba >> /var/log/samba > > quite right, i'd forgotten about that, but as i read it, pretty much > all of that is transient content that will be (slowly?) regenerated as > samba starts to run on the new system. if one looks at the relevant > contents of the samba-common package, one sees: > > # dpkg --listfiles samba-common | grep /var > /var > /var/log > /var/log/samba > /var/cache > /var/cache/samba > /var/lib > /var/lib/samba > /var/run > /var/run/samba > # > > so that's just creating new empty directories. and as for the other > package: > > # dpkg --listfiles samba | grep /var > /var > /var/spool > /var/spool/samba > /var/lib > /var/lib/samba > /var/lib/samba/printers > /var/lib/samba/printers/COLOR > /var/lib/samba/printers/W32MIPS > /var/lib/samba/printers/W32ALPHA > /var/lib/samba/printers/x64 > /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86 > /var/lib/samba/printers/WIN40 > /var/lib/samba/printers/IA64 > /var/lib/samba/printers/W32PPC > # > > so, technically, as long as i don't care about preserving the log > files or cache, i can pretty much forget all of that. does that sound > about right? > > rday
Somewhere there is the machine id stored as far as I remember, I would move the files too or at least have a hot backup. It's important if using it as domain controller etc. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
