--On Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:52 PM -0500 Rajarshi Chaudhuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,
I'm planning to make a daily backup of my openldap(2.3.19 used with bdb
backend). There are couple of questions that I have -

1. If I take a backup using slapcat while slapd is running - is there a
possiblity of some data loss or other inconsistency?

No. Note that if a write to an entry comes in after slapcat has already exported that entry, it will not be in the LDIF export.

2. Is there some other backup mechanism / backup tool recommended other
than slapcat.

No.

3. If I can programmatically assure that no writes happen during my backup
phase - then does it matter whether slapd is running or not?

No.

4. I'm going to do this in both Windows and Solaris environment - so any
suggestions like I should use something specific based on the OS?

No.

I would highly appreciate if my questions are effectively answered.

You should address your questions to [email protected] when they have to do with using OpenLDAP.

You should also consider upgrading to the current OpenLDAP release.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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