Re: slapcat for backups

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Scott Walker wrote:

> Hi All,
> Are these limitiations from the slapcat man page still applicable:
>
> ###
> Limitations
> Your slapd(8) should not be running (at least, not in read-write mode) 
> when you do this to ensure consistency of the database.
> ####
>
> Basically only run slapcat on non-running db's?

For recent versions (newer than 2.1.5 I think) of back-bdb / back-hdb 
you can safely slapcat a running DB. For back-ldbm, you must never do that.

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