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I checked the archives, came across one with
heading "OpenLDAP-Database Backup
Strategies/Software"
An excerpt from this "I use slapcat to an
ldif file. I also have replication to 3 other
servers. So I have 4 copies plus an ldif file that goes on tape by an autoloader at night. I have had to replace one slave LDAP server. I'm not using Sleepycat backend. I'm using ldbm on all servers. To restore a broken server I shutdown the master, sftp the db files to the directory on the new machine, restart the master ensuring that the new server is listed in the master's slapd.conf file and the slave lists the updateref as the master.Then start the slave. It's worked fine so far. I'm just guessing on this but if you had OpenLDAP running on 2 or more machines with different DB backends, you may have to restore a server with ldapadd and an ldif file generated from slapcat. I don't believe you could directly copy the DB files between different DB backends" Does this mean, I don't have to make copies on any
of the files under the database directory as per my earlier comments
?
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