Re: Full Backup/Restore slapd

I want to implement a full backup procedure of my LDAP (schema, ACL, Data ...).

Databases are numbered, with 0 being cn=config, 1 the first back-end you configure, 2 the next etc. I suggest having `slapcat' dump the whole database, so either, say,

slapcat -n 0 -l config.ldif.backup slapcat -n 1 -l example.net.backup

or use -b to specify the suffixes:

slapcat -b "cn=config" -l config.ldif.backup slapcat -n "dc=example,dc=net" -l example.net.backup

Restoring is a matter of taking `slapd' down and using `slapadd` (with above options) to restore, ensuring permissions and ownership of the files are correct before restarting `slapd'.

Read the manual pages for slapcat(8) and slapadd(8).

-JP