Re: server restart - lost data?

[Jon Roberts <jon@jonanddeb.net>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Jon Roberts wrote:
> > Shashank Agrawal wrote:
> > > my server rebooted uncleanly due to power issue and i lost most of the
> > > data in LDAP.

> > You should cd to your openldap directory and run the BDB utility
> > db_recover before restarting slapd.

Err, that should read "your openldap data" directory. Sorry.

> > Several recent threads on this list recommend you add a step to run
> > db_recover in your slapd startup script, because crashes happen.
>  
> This only works if he's running OpenLDAP 2.1.x and later. 
> Most all Fedora installations use 2.0.x, unfortunately.

Really? FC2 delivered with 2.1.29. I would also guess many installations 
build from source, as I do. That leaves a lot of stock FC1 installations 
by your count. Even so, since he said he in his post that he runs 
up2date he undoubtedly would not fall in the 2.0.x category.

> Even if it is 2.1.x or 
> later, he could still be using the ldbm backend, which also means the 
> db_recover option wouldn't work.

Funny, I thought the line:

database        bdb

in the slapd.conf file he posted would indicate to the contrary.

Your favorite whipping boy,

Jon Roberts
www.mentata.com