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Re: regarding data backup

To: arunachalamp@huawei.com
Subject: Re: regarding data backup
From: Christian Marg <marg@rz.tu-clausthal.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:22:58 +0200
Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org
In-reply-to: <000301c7daa9$dc5eb170$5219120a@china.huawei.com>
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Arunachalam Parthasarathy wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am using openldap 2.3.36.
> 
> Is it better to use slapcat to backup the data and use it during
> recovery (after  disk partition crash) using slapadd ?
> 
> Or backup the transaction log files of BDB , so that recovery will be
> done using openldapâs automatic recovery functionality or dbrecover
> utility of bdb ?

I don't know about transaction log files of BDB, but we use
slapcat/slapadd for backup/restore...

Just slapcat to a different Filename each night and you even have
different revisions in your backup.

bye
Christian
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