Re: OpenLDAP backup best practices

[Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, Nikolas Stylianides wrote:

> Hi there. I have a setup of two servers in mirror mode. 
> What is the best policy for backup. 
> Currently i am dumping the DIT using slapcat every midnight. 
> Is there another way to be able to take more frequent backups? 
> Is there an incremental backup feature?

slapcat is the canonical "backup" tool; it's not incremental, but it may 
well qualify as "best policy" to have somewhere in your architecture. If 
you're looking for continuous recovery capabilities, perhaps a 
configuration with (geographically-distributed?) standby replicas may 
suffice? (Honestly, I'm not sure I see a difference between the majority 
of other program's proprietary "incremental" tools and a 
not-as-proprietary, open-spec syncrepl feed.)

Obviously, additional replicas in no way prohibit the use of slapcat.

> Thank you in advance.
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