Re: slapd dead. pls advise how I can restart it

[Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Alessandro Avagliano
<alessandro@avagliano.berlin> wrote:
>
> On 24/06/14 16:10, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>
>>       I does sound like the database is corrupted somehow. slapcat
>> needs slapd to be running, right?
>>
>
> Hello Mauricio,
>
      Hello and thanks for the reply. I will save it in my notes. That
said, the original poster was Eileen, not me.

I do hope she'll try your suggestions and get the data back.

> (If you don't have a backup... )
> ...depending on your operating system and OpenLDAP version installed,
> you should have on your system a tool called  db<version>_recover
>
>  e.g.: db5.1_recover, db4.8_recover and so on.
>
> (from the man page:)
> "db5.1_recover - Restore the database to a consistent state
>
> The  db5.1_recover utility must be run after an unexpected application,
> Berkeley DB, or system failure to
> restore the database to a consistent state. All committed transactions
> are  guaranteed  to  appear  after
> db5.1_recover has run, and all uncommitted transactions will be
> completely undone."
>
>
> Be sure to make a backup copy of your db before running it, and that the
> version of the db utilities that you are running matches your BDB
> version (I haven't tried to recover it using different utilities/db
> version).
>
> If you manage to restore your db, make sure you perform regular backups
> and that you have at least 1 slapd replica running.... they can both
> help you to restore the system in such situations
>
> I hope this helps,
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Alessandro
>
>