Re: backup (was: slapcat cannot open database - why?)

[Leo Cyr <lcyr@pennswoods.net>]

how about something like:

ldapsearch -L -D <bind_dn> -w <bind_pw> -b <your_top_level> 
objectclass=* > ldap_backup.ldif

I've not tried to do it that way but it think it would work.  Just a 
thought.

Reguards,
Leo

Dirk Datzert wrote:

> 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
>
>
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