Re: back_mdb: does rtxnsize affect slapcat live backups?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>]

--On Friday, March 29, 2019 8:40 PM +0000 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

> Maxime Besson wrote:
> > Hi!

> > How would you handle live backups of a database with lots of write 
activity?


Sadly Howard did not answer the above question you had, so I'll give you 
the best solution I can think of based on what's currently available:

Have a secondary server (a replica) of the first.  Using cn=config, delete 
the syncrepl statement from the replica, run slapcat, then re-add the 
syncrepl statement when you're done.  As long as the server is under heavy 
write traffic and backups take signficant time, you will unfortunately 
heavily fragment the DB.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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