Hello,
I'm running openldap 2.4.22 using Buchan's CentOS/RHEL 5 RPMs. For some reason, although the backup script seems to be running successfully (either manually or by cron), it produces no results whatsoever:
# cd /usr/share/openldap2.4/scripts/ # ls -la total 60 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 27 22:14 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 27 22:14 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16584 Apr 27 2010 ldap-common -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3776 Dec 28 09:14 ldap-hot-db-backup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4979 Apr 27 2010 ldap-reinitialise-slave
# ./ldap-hot-db-backup -v 4 Warning: Starting backup Warning: Successfully ran backup to temporary directory Info: We have 0 of 0 locks Info: Starting switch Warning: Switched new backup to good backup successfully Info: successfully removed all lock files Warning: Backup run completed successfully
# ls -la /var/lib/ldap2.4/backup total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Jan 3 19:24 . drwxr-x--- 4 ldap ldap 4096 Jan 4 11:06 ..
I am trying to go through the script code (in the backup script and in ldap-common) but it's no easy task. Can someone suggest some solution? What may be going wrong? Why everything seems successful although no backup is taken? What are these 0 of 0 locks?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Nick
--On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 5:32 PM +0200 Nick Milas nick@eurobjects.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm running openldap 2.4.22 using Buchan's CentOS/RHEL 5 RPMs. For some reason, although the backup script seems to be running successfully (either manually or by cron), it produces no results whatsoever:
This script is not part of the openldap package, and so it is unlikely many people will have any idea what it does or is trying to do. I certainly don't. I suggest you use slapcat.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc. -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
Thanks Quanah,
I know about slapcat and I'm using it with great success.
However, I was wondering about this backup script, since it's part of the default installation (using these RPMs) and automatically scheduled with cron. It seems to be a nice and sophisticated script (by Buchan) which looks trustworthy, although it appears to be relatively old.
Per your advice, I think I'll remove it and schedule (cron) slapcat for nightly/weekly backups instead, unless someone else provides other feedback.
Thanks again, Nick
On 4/1/2011 5:41 μμ, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 5:32 PM +0200 Nick Milas nick@eurobjects.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm running openldap 2.4.22 using Buchan's CentOS/RHEL 5 RPMs. For some reason, although the backup script seems to be running successfully (either manually or by cron), it produces no results whatsoever:
This script is not part of the openldap package, and so it is unlikely many people will have any idea what it does or is trying to do. I certainly don't. I suggest you use slapcat.
--Quanah
--
Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc.
Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
In my experience, when a *nix box fails (a failure that would make the slapcat backups needed) it's more often than not a disk failure.
So, slapcat is great and all, but quite possibly useless if the backup isn't copied off the machine.
Write a script that does both and cron /that/ instead. It needn't be complicated.
Also, if you're able, setup either a spare server or some multi master model (I like mirror master behind VIP personally).
- chris
PS: sorry for top posting - my handheld client insists. :-/
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----- Original Message ----- From: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org To: Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.com Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org openldap-technical@openldap.org Sent: Tue Jan 04 09:03:34 2011 Subject: Re: Problem with openldap backup script
Thanks Quanah,
I know about slapcat and I'm using it with great success.
However, I was wondering about this backup script, since it's part of the default installation (using these RPMs) and automatically scheduled with cron. It seems to be a nice and sophisticated script (by Buchan) which looks trustworthy, although it appears to be relatively old.
Per your advice, I think I'll remove it and schedule (cron) slapcat for nightly/weekly backups instead, unless someone else provides other feedback.
Thanks again, Nick
On 4/1/2011 5:41 μμ, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 5:32 PM +0200 Nick Milas nick@eurobjects.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm running openldap 2.4.22 using Buchan's CentOS/RHEL 5 RPMs. For some reason, although the backup script seems to be running successfully (either manually or by cron), it produces no results whatsoever:
This script is not part of the openldap package, and so it is unlikely many people will have any idea what it does or is trying to do. I certainly don't. I suggest you use slapcat.
--Quanah
--
Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc.
Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
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