# slapindex bdb_db_open: database already in use backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed! (-1) slap_startup failed
slapindex can only be run while the server is stopped.
Ok, thanks a lot for your confirmation, but now I have a problem : the whole mail server (both SMTP and IMAP) are based on LDAP, therefore I can't stop LDAP without interrupting services, is there a "clean" way to do that ?
Schedule downtime?
And I'd advise setting up at least one replica, etc, so you can have your services look at multiple LDAP servers, so LDAP isn't a single point of failure.
Denis