Re: slapd-config(5) Disaster Recovery - Best Practices?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

gruntler-ldap@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am considering migrating from a monolithic slapd.conf file to the newer DIT slapd-config(5).
>
> My primary concern is how to recover if a dynamic change brings down slapd
so it becomes difficult to recover since the configuration is in a database
and slapd will not start.
> Is it as simple as making a slapcat backup of the configuration database
> (or
some other backup of the configuration database that resides in the slapd.d
directory) prior to making changes so that a roll-back would consist of
replacing the contents of the slapd.d directory? Or is there some other
recovery method that is preferred?

Just use slapcat.

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