Re: Correct procedure to backup LDAP?

[Jeff Grant <jgrant@voicesignal.com>]

Hey Quanah -

Here, we're currently using:

net-nds/openldap-2.3.24-r1

Gentoo GNU/Linux.

Thanks for any/all info and tips - I'm not a Linux n00b, but surely a
networking/protocol n00b .. heh.

-Jeff

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
> 
> --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
> 
> -- 
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Developer
> ITS/Shared Application Services
> Stanford University
> GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
> 

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