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Downgrading Samba
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Short version: data-preserving downgrades between Samba versions are not supported
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Long version:
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With Samba development there are cases when on-disk database format evolves.
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In general, Samba Team attempts to maintain forward compatibility and
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automatically upgrade databases during runtime when requires.
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However, when downgrade is required Samba will not perform downgrade to
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existing databases. It may be impossible if new features that caused database
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upgrade are in use. Thus, one needs to consider a downgrade procedure before
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actually downgrading Samba setup.
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Please always perform back up prior both upgrading and downgrading across major
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version changes. Restoring database files is easiest and simplest way to get to
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previously working setup.
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Easiest way to downgrade is to remove all created databases and start from scratch.
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This means losing all authentication and domain relationship data, as well as
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user databases (in case of tdb storage), printers, registry settings, and winbindd
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caches.
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Remove databases in following locations:
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/var/lib/samba/*.tdb
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/var/lib/samba/private/*.tdb
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In particular, registry settings are known to prevent running downgraded versions
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(Samba 4 to Samba 3) as registry format has changed between Samba 3 and Samba 4.