slapd and checkpoint

[jehan procaccia <jehan.procaccia@int-evry.fr>]

hello,

I am wondering if slapd is checkpointing the database at every start or 
stop ?
If slapd.conf doesn't contain a "checkpoint" directive, there won't be 
any checkpoint done ?
Mine doesn't contain one until now ... but db_archive tells me that only 
the last log file is usefull (log.0000000011), so I conclude that 
checkpoints have occured, but when ? how can we check when the latest 
checkpoint happened , and did it worked fine ?
With cyrus imapd (using bdb) we can check that, there's also a utility 
that checkpoints/(recover ?) the databases at every start of the daemon:
START {
  # do not delete this entry!
  recover       cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r"

Is it a good practice to do a db_recover before starting slapd ?

Thanks.

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