RE: BDB recovery after power outage

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Luke A. Kanies

> I just had another forced outage today, and that outage
> resulted in what
> might amount to a catastrophic amount of data loss.  No, I don't have
> backups yet, so sue me.
>
> My question is, am I doing something completely retarded here, or does

Hm, let me see, you already had one major outage before and you still don't
have backups, and you clearly haven't read any of the documentation. Yes, it
certainly seems like there's something wrong with your thought processes.

You might start reading here:
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/738.html

There are links off to the SleepyCat documentation for Berkeley DB, which is
where it gets to the heart of the matter.

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