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-rw-r--r--source4/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source4/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c b/source4/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c
index 9d37046116..becc6cd059 100644
--- a/source4/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c
+++ b/source4/lib/tdb/common/transaction.c
@@ -857,6 +857,15 @@ int tdb_transaction_commit(struct tdb_context *tdb)
tdb_brlock_len(tdb, GLOBAL_LOCK, F_UNLCK, F_SETLKW, 0, 1);
+ /* on some systems (like Linux 2.6.x) changes via mmap/msync
+ don't change the mtime of the file, this means the file may
+ not be backed up (as tdb rounding to block sizes means that
+ file size changes are quite rare too). The following forces
+ mtime changes when a transaction completes */
+#ifdef HAVE_UTIME
+ utime(tdb->name, NULL);
+#endif
+
/* use a transaction cancel to free memory and remove the
transaction locks */
tdb_transaction_cancel(tdb);