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Re: BDB recovery after power outage

To: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: BDB recovery after power outage
From: Tony Earnshaw <tonni@billy.demon.nl>
Date: 21 Apr 2003 08:31:43 +0200
Cc: "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@madstop.com>, openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
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man, 21.04.2003 kl. 03.28 skrev Quanah Gibson-Mount:

> On the backups issue, have you thought of doing a nightly slapcat?  That is 
> what we do... The BDB size of our DB is 1.9GB, the slapcat created LDIF 
> file, when compressed with gzip, is 50MB.  Quite the savings, and it gives 
> us a restore point.

Hallo Quanah,

I've seen for myself that it's possible to do fine-grained database
restorals simply using the BDB 4 log files and nothing else.

Is there any special reason that you're doing an slapcat for restore
points, or is this simply a belt-and-braces approach?

Best,

Tony

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