On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:36:20PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote: > Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:54:27 -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>The only officially supported backup method with OpenLDAP is slapcat. > >>Everything else, you do at your own risk. > > > > The admin guide disagrees with you. Chapter 19 describes incremental > > backup by copying first the entire DB, then backing up further DB logs.
I do know that using the db_* utilities are only applicable to the BDB backend. As far as I know, it's the most mature of the backends to use with 2.3.43. (If I'm wrong in that, do let me know.) I recognize, also, that essentially all of the files in the directory are neccessary for safe backups. (I haven't explored any of suggested hot-backup techniques yet, and LDIF imports are currently too time-consuming, so I'm for now stuck with the low-tech backup method of 'tar'. :) A core element of my question is: is putting slapd into read-only mode via the config database sufficient for me to process that directory's contents? > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large
