Re: Correct procedure to backup LDAP?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, August 14, 2006 12:23 PM -0400 Jeff Grant 
<jgrant@voicesignal.com> wrote:

> Hey all.
>
> I work at a medium-sized software company and we're about 70-100 users
> big now.
>
> We have 2 LDAP servers, and they need to be backed up regularly, *while*
> LDAP is running - if possible.
>
> I've seen 'slapcat' as a solution, but I've also read that it's not a
> good idea to run this command while LDAP is running.

What version of OpenLDAP are you using?  This option is just fine with 
anything since OpenLDAP 2.2, IIRC.

--Quanah

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