Hi Kurt, Hi Roland, we use a simple script that shutsdown the LDAP server for just 2 seconds every 12h, copy the directories to a backup dir and restarts the server. After the Script you could do a ldbmcat on the backuped dir which is always offline. ##### Start Script on Compaq ProLiant DL360, SuSE 7.0 linux kernel 2.2.16, OpenLDAP 1.2.11 #!/bin/sh SLAPD_CONF="/etc/openldap/slapd.conf" ORIGIN="ldap" BACKUP="ldap.backup" rcldap stop for db in `cat $SLAPD_CONF | grep ^directory | cut -f 2`; do db_backup=`echo "$db" | sed -e "s,$ORIGIN,$BACKUP,g"` mkdir -m 0700 -p $db_backup echo "Creating Backup of $db in `dirname $db_backup`" cp -rpf $db `dirname $db_backup` done rcldap start ###### End Script Roland Rosenfeld schrieb: > Hi Kurt! > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote: > > > > slapcat: could not open database. > > > Make sure slapd is not running. > > Ah, many thanks, that helped. > > But this doesn't help me with my initial problem: I want to backup the > LDAP server. Is it safe to backup the gdbm files only? I personally > would prefer to backup a LDIF file, which can also be used on a > machine with a different hardware architecture. That's why I was > looking for slapcat. But on a production machine I cannot stop slapd > while running slapcat, because the server needs to be available all > the time. > > So my new question is: how do you backup the data of your LDAP servers? > > Tschoeeee > > Roland -- Dirk Datzert Rasselstein Hoesch GmbH Informatik / Anwendungsentwicklung D-56626 Andernach Koblenzer Strasse 141 http://www.rasselstein-hoesch.de Tel.: +49 (0) 2631 81-4595 Fax.: +49 (0) 2631 81-15-4595 mailto:Dirk.Datzert@rasselstein-hoesch.de
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