I wrote:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:20 -0800, Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:
Chapter 19 is obviously a work-in-progress, transferred over from the FAQ-o-Matic.
Presumably because backup has previously only been described in the FAQ-o-Matic. But I'm pretty sure this has been the documented backup method with the Berkeley DB backends since forever.
"the documented" -> "a documented" backup method. In the FAQ, which people were commonly directed to read earlier in OpenLDAP's life.
Getting back to how to speed up restore:
If you do move to slapcat/slapadd, note that tuning slapd as described in the Guide speeds up slapadd a lot, if you have not already done that. So does the -q flag to slapadd. There was a time when a normally configured slapd would not open a database built with slapadd -q, but I think that was a long time ago.
Hallvard