2013/5/30 Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.com:

--On Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:39 AM +0200 Meike Stone meike.stone@googlemail.com wrote:

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Hello,

is it possible to use a ldif-backup with operation attributes (ldapsearch ... '+' '*') with slapadd, to save the operation attributes, if no slapcat backup is available? Are there any concerns?

If you can't get a slapcat backup, how would you get a ldapsearch backup?

A seconds reason, why I try to prevent using slapcat on a productive system is:

======================================================= slapd[4812]: bdb(ou=root): PANIC: Permission denied slapd[4812]: bdb(ou=root): DB_ENV->log_newfh: 15752: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery slapd[4812]: bdb(ou=root): txn_checkpoint: failed to flush the buffer cache: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recover slapd[4812]: bdb(ou=root): PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery slapd[4812]: null_callback : error code 0x50 slapd[4812]: syncrepl_updateCookie: rid=001 be_modify failed (80) slapd[4812]: do_syncrepl: rid=001 rc 80 retrying (4 retries left) =======================================================

This message I got today on a productive system while getting a ldif via slapcat for setting up an syncrepl slave. This shouldn happen, slapcat (8) manpage tells:

"For some backend types, your slapd(8) should not be running (at least, not in read-write mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the database. *It is always safe to run slapcat with the slapd-bdb(5)*, slapd-hdb(5), and slapd-null(5) backends."

So using ldapsearch is more reliable for me ...

Kindly regards Meike