Re: server restart - lost data?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --On Friday, May 20, 2005 11:04 PM -0500 Jon Roberts 
> <jon@jonanddeb.net> wrote:
>
> > You should cd to your openldap directory and run the BDB utility
> > db_recover before restarting slapd. See:
> >
> > http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/utility/db_recover.html
> >
> > > and what can i do to prevent this.
> >
> >
> > Several recent threads on this list recommend you add a step to run
> > db_recover in your slapd startup script, because crashes happen.
>
>
> This only works if he's running OpenLDAP 2.1.x and later.  Most all 
> Fedora installations use 2.0.x, unfortunately.  So what would be most 
> useful is to know the version of OpenLDAP that is being used, because 
> advice cannot be properly suggested until it is.  Even if it is 2.1.x 
> or later, he could still be using the ldbm backend, which also means 
> the db_recover option wouldn't work.

Actually, Fedora provides a fairly recent OpenLDAP release. And the 
original poster's slapd.conf showed he's using back-bdb, not ldbm. (And 
there was no back-bdb in OpenLDAP 2.0.) The db_recover advice given 
above was fine.

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