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Re: Backing up openldap

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Nov 2014, Jerry wrote:

Before changing over to "mdb" from "bdb", I ran a script that used slapcat to
generate an LDIF file every night. Since updating to "mdb", that script fails
if "slapd" is running. That is expected behavior from what I have been
reading. <http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/288.html>


No.

That documentation refers to the age old and long deprecated backend that preceeded both berkeley db backends.


My question is how do I export the directory into an LDIF file if "slapd" is
running, or is that not supported? I could easily modify the script to shut
down the program, backup the directory in an LDIF format and restart the
program; however, that seems overly ambitious. I understand that
"replication" is an option, but I don't know if I really want to go that
route at this time.


just run slapcat.  It should work just fine.  If not provide more details.

Greetings
Christian

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