On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:52 AM, John Cheng <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Apologize for the newbie question. But, I have small instance of ApcheDS >> > running and I would like to make sure my data gets backed up. Is this as >> > simple as just copying the partitions folder or??? >> The best would be to run a cron task (on linux) to get all the entries >> extracted as LDIF, say, every hour. This is a guaranteed way to get >> your data straight. >> > > Hi Emmanuel, > > Is the apacheds-tools.jar capable of doing backup/restores? A search on > the archives seem to indicate that it is broken and one should use > OpenLdap tools to perform backup/restore via the command line > > http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/DCLZ8EQq6MXcLPfXYRB3 > > Trying the command > > java -jar apacheds-tools.jar dump -i /path/to/apacheds -p system > > Yielded java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.directory.daemon.InstallationLayout > the best is to export all the data into a LDIF file and use as backup. yes the server-tools is broken and is not supported at the moment
> On a subject that relates to backups, is replication not working in > ApacheDS 1.5.7? no, it is not working in 1.5.7 but the trunk has support for master/slave replication (rfc4533 a.k.a syncrepl) may be you can consider upgrading your server to the latest in a dev environment and see -- Kiran Ayyagari
