Re: Is putting slapd into read-only mode sufficient for backups?

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 04:53:52PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:

I'm curious if the tactics described in this thread are currently sufficient:

http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200608/msg00152.html

Let me try asking a slightly different question.

This page says:

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/287.html

How do I backup my directory?

... You can backup your BDB, HDB, or LDBM-based directory by making a copy of the id2entry index file while slapd is NOT running.

Question: is slapd, put into read-only mode via the config database, close enough to 'NOT running' to satisfy the condition?

Follow-up: is it expected that the misc db_* utilities can be used safely at this point?