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"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:

> This question is more appropriate for the OpenLDAP-software list.
> Please redirect further discussions there.
>
> To do a backup of an LDAP server, take the server down and
> dump the filesystem or use ldbmcat to generate an LDIF
> representation of each database.
>

Hmm. But I can't stop server :((

>
> You should not attempt to backup the server while it is
> as the quality of the backup cannot be guaranteed.
>

All 3 times of database crach was when I restart server.
How can I backup something if after server stop database
is corrupted? :(

>
>         Kurt
> At 03:05 PM 1/18/00 +0400, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> >How I can backup my ldap database?
> >I used openldap 1.2.7 and lost my database 2 times-
> >after rebooting server, so I get data from replication.
> >Today I reboot replication server and get database on it corrupted.
> >I copy database from main server, but without success,
> >me be because I don't stop server.
> >So I do ldif export with gq and now both servers work
> >and I upgrade to 1.2.8.
> >Question is how to backup ldap database -
> >looks like simple copy is not enough :(
> >
> >--
> >Dmitry Melekhov
> >http://www.aspec.ru/~dm
> >2:5050/11.23@fidonet
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ----
> Kurt D. Zeilenga                <kurt@boolean.net>
> Net Boolean Incorporated        <http://www.boolean.net/>

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Dmitry Melekhov
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