[Date Prev][Date Next]
[Chronological]
[Thread]
[Top]
Re: mdb backup via slapcat
- To: <openldap-technical@openldap.org>
- Subject: Re: mdb backup via slapcat
- From: Bastian Tweddell <b.tweddell@fz-juelich.de>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:23:54 +0200
- Content-disposition: inline
- Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=fz-juelich.de; h= user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type :content-type:mime-version:references:message-id:subject:subject :from:from:date:date:received:received:received:received; s= main; t=1467026635; bh=ZEJ1JaAFYfQAUvFtcKdMoOf4owSv3KfJmks0S6H3z Eo=; b=madDCXGGAXX/FXfMTDDrhm18OVgDZH1dqKnEp/9n4ktXY9RFgy2Pc6JZ6 a72HN+LZZSHnbB3hJ783L8AXctGugiafjzYNBs565cbQQzMfQBxFA3s4MWdV9CKZ z+VppAKVLSKcc6aoaUyUgsjiFQJhMKI1OB7NeT5zzPREF6q31c=
- In-reply-to: <4884BF468A399E11839655C6@[192.168.1.19]>
- References: <20160624102933.GB13239@fz-juelich.de> <4884BF468A399E11839655C6@[192.168.1.19]>
- User-agent: Mutt/1.6.1+3 (f1f1af650910) (2016-04-27)
On 24Jun16 07:19-0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Friday, June 24, 2016 1:29 PM +0200 Bastian Tweddell
> > I am used to run slapcat to create backups of the backend database
> > _while_ slapd is running. Recently I migrated from bdb to mdb. Now I
> > read that using slapcat on a running slapd is only safe for bdb and hdb
> > backends [1].
>
> You are confusing LDBM with LMDB. Two entirely different things. Slapcat
> is perfectly valid for back-mdb. The FAQ simply hasn't been updated in
> years. I.e., LMDB didn't even exist the last time it was updated.
Yes, you are right, I got confused by LDBM and LMDB and an outdated FAQ
entry. I sleep better now after having learned that my backups aren't
prone to corruption in this sense.
Many thanks,
--
Bastian Tweddell Juelich Supercomputing Centre
phone: +49 (2461) 61-6586 HPC in Neuroscience
Attachment:
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature