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

[wes@umich.edu]

You might also tell your "invisible" slave to produce a replog.  I save
the relog that my "invisible" slave produces, split into hour-long chunks,
for a week, so I can effectively reproduce the database as it was at any 
point
for the week.

:wes

--On Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:52 PM -0700 Ron Chmara <ron@Opus1.COM> 
wrote:
> It takes the server off-line for a few seconds, copies id2entry,
> and then brings the silent replica back online. It then converts
> the *copied* file to ldif format (I use ldbm, man ldbmcat),
> so the online real downtime on this invisible replica is for
> copying (about 2 seconds) and reloading slapd.