I'm sorry; I thought you were focussing on my processing of the directory's contents (which do need review, thanks), rather than how I prepared slapd. Ok. Now I now, read-only mode via the config database is not sufficient for making backups in this manner. Thanks for your patience...
:)Also recall that going from 32 to 64-bit architectures may not work. Whomever wrote the idiotic policy of using vendor distributions needs to be educated. I only got 2.3.43 stable for me after applying a number of patches to it that I manually backported from RE24, and I have long since abandoned it for 2.4.
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