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Yes, you are right, I got confused by LDBM and LMDB and an outdated FAQ entry.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
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