None at all. It's used as part of our backup strategy too.

In fact, in an older version of OpenLDAP 2.2, we used to do that to get a dump we'd copy by hand to the remote slaves that quite often got out of sync. FWIW, no issues with that since we upgraded to 2.4.23.

- chris

-----Original Message----- From: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of ldap@mm.st Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 2:46 PM To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: slapcat on bdb

Running RH5 openldap 2.3 with "database bdb" in slapd.conf. This has most likely been covered, but I am seeing many conflicting recommendations on running slapcat while slapd is running. The man page states "It is always safe to run slapcat with the slapd-bdb" Which seems very definitive, but I came across another well know guide that states that even though the man page states its ok, slapd should be stopped first before running slapcat.

I'm writing a short backup script to generate nightly ldif output using slapcat and would rather not shut down slapd in the script. Since I have not been running openlap for very long, I was curious if anyone has had any problems running slapcat while slapd was running.

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