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
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