Re: Best Backend for handling Power Outages

[Josiah Ritchie <jritchie@bible.edu>]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 10:44 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > What backend is going to handle this best? Currently, I have to build
> > from backup each time it crashes and having done it about 8 times since
> > the server came up about as many months ago, it is getting old.
> 
> back-bdb,  it is completely transactional (assuming your using a decent
> build).  Long ago when we tested back-ldbm that was pretty easy to
> thrash via a "kill -9".

I have 'database bdb' in my config file. Is that not the same as what
you mentioned? Running openldap-2.1.30.

> Run a db_recover before starting slapd,  just add it to your service
> start script.

Thanks, I'll look at that also.

> > (Yes, I am aware of software to monitor the UPS.)
> 
> Yep, I was going to point that out. :)

Thanks :-) I'm on that.

JSR/