Re: Fwd: backup and desaster recovery question (ldap)

[Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@bzz.no>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:35:09PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote:
> 
> I posted it in the geman skolelinux.de mailinglist and
> got some answeres that leads to the following
> questions / theses:
> 
> - Is the ldap database part of the backup?

No

> - if yes, where it is located?
> - From the answers of skolelinux.de mailinglist it
> sounds, as if a backup of the running ldap database is
> not possible. Maybe it must be exported first ?

yes

> - If it must be exported first, a description for the
> 'newbie' admins is required

 /etc/init.d/slapd stop 
 /usr/sbin/slapcat -l /var/backups/tjener.ldif
 /etc/init.d/slapd start 

> - if export is needed it will be helpful to integrate
> it into the skolelinux backup module in webmin to make
> it transparent and easy to handle (e.g. define a
> possible pre-action for each backup path ?)

Yes, it would, but we have not completed such tasks yet

> - same procedure for postgres db ?

yes. but with different commands

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Finn-Arne Johansen 
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