Re: How to set BDB "read-only" before slapcat command ?
2009/2/9 Michael Ströder <michael(a)stroeder.com>:
No matter what you do at the LDAP server's side it could happen
in
between a series of related write operations leading to inconsistent
state of data (from the application's point of view).
If you want better hints then you have to provide more details about
your deployment.
Ciao, Michael.
We have a primary "hidden" master and two replicating secondaries
which both get queried in a round-robin DNS fashion.
Applications such as phpLDAPadmin are configured to connect to these
secondaries which pass writes to the primary via an updateref chain
overlay.
At the moment I am using slapcat on the primary for backups but am
open to other suggestions.
Perhaps I should just create a third read-only replicating secondary
which no applications connect to and backup from that ?
The possible problem I see with that setup is what happens if the
slapcat occurs during an update from the provider to the consumer ?