Re: back up for ldap ...

[Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef@pandora.be>]

And why not just let people connect to the replica, and take the backups on the
master? It's always better/preferable to take a backup at the most exact source
possible.

F.

Matthew Palmer wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 Sovan_Shatpathy@satyam-infoway.com wrote:
>
> >       Here we are talking about a live set up where ldap is being used to
> > authenticate users. Now our problem is that in a live set up we cannot afford to
> > stop  slapd to take any back up.
>
> OK, then set up a replica server which does nothing except backups.  You can
> take that down at will, and do your LDIF backup from there.  It will lag the
> primary server by 1-2 seconds at most.
>
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