Hi Joy!<br><br>I suggest you to use slapcat, but its better stop the OpenLDAP. You can make a crontab task on midnight, or something like.<br><br>A very simple example of shell script.<br><br>#!/bin/bash<br><br>/etc/init.d/ldap stop 
<br><br>slapcat &gt; /path/to/backup/backup_base.ldif<br>tar -zcf /path/to/backup/backup_ldap.tar.gz /etc/ldap /path/to/base<br><br>/etc/init.d/ldap start<br><br>exit<br><br>Cheers.<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">JOYDEEP</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:j.bakshi@unlimitedmail.org">j.bakshi@unlimitedmail.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear list,<br><br>I am newbie in OpenLDAP. Prersently I am running an OpenLDAP as the<br>authentication of Postfix+IMAP email server.<br>How can I take backup and maintain the database of LDAP ? what are the<br>commands ?
<br>I like to place the associated commands in a cron jobs.<br>Please enlighten me. thanks<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>/\<br>Gabriel Stein<br><a href="mailto:gabrielstein@gmail.com">gabrielstein@gmail.com
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