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[James Dingwall <1952187@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

upstream report with proposed fix:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14918

Since the upgrade in 'focal' to 4.13 the samba domain backup script
fails if there is a dangling symbolic link in any of the directories
included in the backup.

running backup on dirs: /var/lib/samba/private /var/lib/samba /etc/samba
ERROR(<class 'FileNotFoundError'>): uncaught exception - [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/samba/dfs/netlogon'
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line 186, in _run
    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain_backup.py", line 1105, in run
    if any(os.path.samefile(full_path, file) for file in all_files):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain_backup.py", line 1105, in <genexpr>
    if any(os.path.samefile(full_path, file) for file in all_files):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/genericpath.py", line 100, in samefile
    s1 = os.stat(f1)

$ apt-cache policy samba
samba:
  Installed: 2:4.13.14+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Candidate: 2:4.13.14+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 2:4.13.14+dfsg-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

The backup is executed as:

/usr/bin/samba-tool domain backup offline --targetdir="${BACKDIR}"

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: focal

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Title:
  backup command raises FileNotFoundError

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