On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 03:09:41PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > 2.3 is not a supported release series. I would strongly advise upgrading > to a supported release.
Having tracked this project for years, I'm well aware of that stance, but I'm trapped in a world where I'm stuck with what the vendor provides, warts and all. > But yes, back-hdb/bdb are the two mature backends > for use in the 2.3 series. Cool! I've been reading about the progress on HDB; hopefully I can carve out some time to shake it down... > I would only ever consider a "safe" backup of > bdb itself to be when slapd is shut down, and after db_recover has been > run. Then you can safely back up the *.bdb and log.* files. Puting slapd > in read-only mode is not necessarily sufficient, as you need to force a BDB > checkpoint prior to backing up the BDB db. I'm familiar with forcing a checkpoint; from my first post in this thread: > What we're doing currently is: > > - stopping slapd > - using db_checkpoint and db_archive to manage the BDB logs > - copy away the directory > - restart slapd I'm trying to estabish if read-only mode is close enough to _stopping_ slapd, to allow that bdb-specific processing to safely commence... > --Quanah > > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Sr. Member of Technical Staff > Zimbra, Inc > A Division of VMware, Inc. > -------------------- > Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large
