On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:36:20PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:54:27 -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.com wrote:
The only officially supported backup method with OpenLDAP is slapcat. Everything else, you do at your own risk.
The admin guide disagrees with you. Chapter 19 describes incremental backup by copying first the entire DB, then backing up further DB logs.
I do know that using the db_* utilities are only applicable to the BDB backend. As far as I know, it's the most mature of the backends to use with 2.3.43. (If I'm wrong in that, do let me know.)
I recognize, also, that essentially all of the files in the directory are neccessary for safe backups. (I haven't explored any of suggested hot-backup techniques yet, and LDIF imports are currently too time-consuming, so I'm for now stuck with the low-tech backup method of 'tar'. :)
A core element of my question is: is putting slapd into read-only mode via the config database sufficient for me to process that directory's contents?
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