Re: Is putting slapd into read-only mode sufficient for backups?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:12 PM +0100 Hallvard B Furuseth 
<h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> wrote:

>  On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:54:27 -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount
> <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:
>
> > The only officially supported backup method with OpenLDAP is slapcat.
> > Everything else, you do at your own risk.
>
>  The admin guide disagrees with you.  Chapter 19 describes incremental
>  backup by copying first the entire DB, then backing up further DB logs.

I can't speak to why that was added to the Admin guide.  The fact remains, 
last I checked, slapcat is the only officially supported backup method.

And those BDB tools will get you nowhere with back-mdb, back-ndb, etc, so 
there's a good reason that slapcat is the officially supported method.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
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