RE: backup (was: slapcat cannot open database - why?)

[Henrik Lassen <henrik.lassen@mobilix.dk>]

Me to - VERY interested in a portable backup.

Rgds,

Henrik

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Rosenfeld [mailto:rosenfeld@netcologne.de]
Sent: 18. januar 2001 09:44
To: Kurt D. Zeilenga
Cc: OpenLDAP Software
Subject: backup (was: slapcat cannot open database - why?)


Hi Kurt!

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> >    slapcat: could not open database.

> Make sure slapd is not running.

Ah, many thanks, that helped.

But this doesn't help me with my initial problem: I want to backup the
LDAP server.  Is it safe to backup the gdbm files only?  I personally
would prefer to backup a LDIF file, which can also be used on a
machine with a different hardware architecture.  That's why I was
looking for slapcat.  But on a production machine I cannot stop slapd
while running slapcat, because the server needs to be available all
the time.

So my new question is: how do you backup the data of your LDAP servers?

Tschoeeee

        Roland