> > Hi all, > > > > I've a small project to backup and restore openldap servers online on > >centos 5.8. Basically I don't have the luxury to shutdown the ldap server, > >then backup whole /var/lib/ldap/, but have to backup online with slapcat or > >similar command line tool. > > > > The major concern of using slapcat is the warning below, which was excerpt > > from link > > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s1-ldap-daemonsutils.html > > > > You must stop slapd by issuing the /sbin/service ldap stop command before > > using slapadd, slapcat or slapindex. Otherwise, the integrity of the LDAP > > directory is at risk. > > Does the limitation of slapcat -- stop ldap first -- still exist? Please > > shed a light onto this. Thanks. > ---- > depends on what you are using for backend. If you are still using ldbm (you > definitely shouldn't at this point), then yes, it must be stopped before > doing the slapcat. If you are using > bdb or hdb, no… it's not necessary to > stop the service first. > >Craig
Thanks for confirmation, I'm using the default config/backend with minor changes, so it seems bdb. The following are the types of the files under /var/lib/ldap. alock: data cn.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) __db.001: Applesoft BASIC program data __db.002: data __db.003: data __db.004: data __db.005: data __db.006: data DB_CONFIG: ASCII English text dn2id.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) gidNumber.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) givenName.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) id2entry.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) log.0000000001: Berkeley DB (Log, version 11, native byte-order) loginShell.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) mail.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) objectClass.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) ou.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) sn.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) uid.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) uidNumber.bdb: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order) Thanks. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
