On Nov 13, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Gelen James wrote: >>> 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) ---- from the primary developer of OpenLDAP software…
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200611/msg00048.html Craig _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
