--On Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:44 PM -0800 Rajarshi Chaudhuri rajarshi@genesyslab.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm planning to make a daily backup of my openldap(2.3.19 used with bdb backend). There are couple of questions that I have -

1. If I take a backup using slapcat while slapd is running - is there a

possibility of some data loss or other inconsistency?

2. Is there some other effective backup mechanism / backup tool

recommended other than slapcat.

3. If I can programmatically assure that no writes happen during my backup

phase - then does it matter whether slapd is running or not?

4. I'm going to do this in both Windows and Solaris environment - so any

suggestions like I should use something specific based on the OS?

I would highly appreciate if my questions are effectively answered.

They were already answered on the ldap@umich list, why are you reposting?

--Quanah

-- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Developer ITS/Shared Application Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html