Question about backups

[Chris Zimmerman <czimmer@voicecommander.com>]

I have seen quite a bit of information about using LDAP as the only
source of user info for things like Apache, Sendmail, etc.  I think that
it's great but how do you effectively keep the data backed up?  I have a
small ldap database, and I am using tar every night to back up the
system, but is this an effective means of back-up?  Are there any
problems with open files (the database files)?


Thanks,
Chris Zimmerman

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