Re: backup and restore

[Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>]

Today at 10:27am, Agustin wrote:

> hi ron!
>
> i have ldbm too. i have one server ant two replicas and sometimes i have to
> copy the  master's database to the replicas because i had problems with
> replication.
>
> if you make ldif backup and later make slapadd you must do slapdindex too to
> re-make the indexes of the database.
> i prefer copy the openldap/var branch completly (i have the sames indexes at
> the master and the slaves).

Uhm... NO!
  I'm running a Master-Slave combination on 2.0.23 and I do a "nightly
database replacement" by stopping the server, using slapcat to dump the
database, use a set of perl scripts to update the ldif (new information
insertion), and then use slapadd to reload the database on the two
machines.  I never ever have to run slapindex.  slapadd does the
indexing for me.  I have had problems when I forgot that I was running
these commands as root and slapd runs as ldap.... However, now that I
also do a "chown -R ldap:ldap" against the ldbm database directory, all
is happy and harmonious.

>
> kind regards
>
> agustin.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron McKown" <rmckown@envenergy.com>
> To: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:37 PM
> Subject: backup and restore
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > i'm new to LDAP and i've read the LDAP howto as well as a few
> > administration guides.  i've implemented authentication via LDAP and it
> > works very well.
> > i've run into a problem and i'm not sure i have all the facts.  i am
> > trying to move my LDAP database from one machine to another.
> > here's my command list:
> > service ldap stop
> > slapcat -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -l backup.ldif
> > service ldap start
> >
> > i move the backup.ldif and slapd.conf file to the other computer, then:
> > slapadd -f /etc/opendldap/slapd.conf -l backup.ldif
> > (i get no errors here, i'm assuming all went well).
> > service ldap start
> > (again, no errors)
> >
> > however, now it seems that there is no data in the new database.
> > did i use the wrong commands for this operation?  is there a better way?
> > also, what is the best way to blow away a LDAP database on a machine?
> >
> > also, i'm using ldbm.
> > thanks everyone!
> >
> > Ron McKown
> > rmckown@envenergy.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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