Re: regarding data backup

[Guillaume <silencer@free-4ever.net>]

Arunachalam Parthasarathy a écrit :
> Hello all,
hi

> I am using openldap 2.3.36.
good choice :-)

> Is it better to use slapcat to backup the data and use it during 
> recovery (after  disk partition crash) using slapadd ?
For me, I do a full ldapsearch which provide nice ldif file to use with 
ldapadd

just at the end of the file, there is 2 lines with the number of result 
which provide errors with ldapadd. You can just remove these lines.

> Or backup the transaction log files of BDB , so that recovery will be 
> done using openldap’s automatic recovery functionality or dbrecover 
> utility of bdb ?
I've never use that way of recovery

> Please correct me if I am wrong in the process of data maintenance.
>
> Thanks in advance,
No problem

> Arunachalam.
Guillaume