AW: Backup && Restore

[Jurgen Hotzel <juergen@cyperfection.de>]

Hi,

>
> Hi,
>
> I have slapd and a large database going with it. Are there any
> recommended procedures for backup and restore ? Does only the
> /var/lib/ldap (the database directory) need to be backed up
Yes, this is the default path when using the ldbm backend:


,----[ /etc/openldap/slapd.conf ]
|
| #######################################################################
| # ldbm database definitions
| #######################################################################
|
| database        ldbm
| directory       /var/lib/ldap
`----

> to tape ? Is
> it recommended to stop slapd for the time of the backup ?
>
I use the this command to make a backup (ldif output) on redhat-7.2:
/etc/init.d/ldap stop; /usr/sbin/slapcat >~/slapcat-`date
+"%Y-%m-%d"`.ldif;/etc/init.d/ldap start

Juergen