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Re: Backing up LDAP database



Andrew Kemp wrote:
> > The "proper" way to do a back up is to:
> >  1) shutdown slapd
> >  2) copy database using either
> >        a) cp -r dbdir savedir
> >     or
> >        b) cp dbdir/id2entry.* savedir
> >  3) restart slapd
> >
> > You can generate an LDIF from the copy if you desire, but I
> > generally just archive a copy if id2entry.
> 
> BTW, if you have the id2entry copy and you have a failure, which tools
> do you use to recover to a workable database ? ie: build all indexes, etc?

ldbmcat and ldif2ldbm.

Kurt