Re: online backup with slapcat?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:52 -0600, fuser9bb@hotpop.com wrote:
>  
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> > Craig White wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > > 3. is there an even better way to backup openldap databases?
> > > > >     
> > > > >
> > > > >          
> > > > I suggest searching the archives, as it is quite possible to slapcat the DB 
> > > > without shutting down slapd in OL 2.2, depending on the backend you use.
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > ----
> > > FAQ at openldap.org
> > >
> > > <http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/287.html>
> > >
> > > Craig
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Can someone explain what " For BDB and HDB, slapcat(8) can generally be 
> > used while the server is running" means. Is it safe or not? I'm still at 
> > the same point in my understanding. :)
> >    
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> # grep database /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
> # ldbm database definitions
> database        bdb
>
> (ok I'm sloppy on my labels)
>
> my backend is bdb
>
> I would guess that the term 'generally' refers to older versions of
> openldap & sleepycat - perhaps < 2.2.13 and 4.2.52 respectively and it
> appears that the usage of openldap < 2.2.13 and sleepycat < 4.2.52 are
> not supported by this message base anyway.
back-bdb has supported online backups since 2.1.5 or so. back-hdb has 
naturally supported online backups since it first appeared (in 2.2.0) 
since it is just a variant of back-bdb.

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