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Re: slapcat for backups



Scott Walker wrote:

Hi All,
Are these limitiations from the slapcat man page still applicable:

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Limitations
Your slapd(8) should not be running (at least, not in read-write mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the database.
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Basically only run slapcat on non-running db's?

For recent versions (newer than 2.1.5 I think) of back-bdb / back-hdb you can safely slapcat a running DB. For back-ldbm, you must never do that.


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