Re: [Fwd: backup]

[Dmitry Melekhov <dm@aspec.ru>]

Dmitry Melekhov wrote:

> "Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
>
> > This question is more appropriate for the OpenLDAP-software list.
> > Please redirect further discussions there.
> >
> > To do a backup of an LDAP server, take the server down and
> > dump the filesystem or use ldbmcat to generate an LDIF
> > representation of each database.
> >
>
> Hmm. But I can't stop server :((
>
> >
> > You should not attempt to backup the server while it is
> > as the quality of the backup cannot be guaranteed.
> >
>
> All 3 times of database crach was when I restart server.
> How can I backup something if after server stop database
> is corrupted? :(

Strange that no replies.
I think that simple method is to get ldif
from external program.
May be somebody has script for doing this
in perl, php or something like this?

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