  RE: backup (was: slapcat cannot open database - why?)  Me to -
VERY interested in a portable backup.    -----Original
Message----- From: Roland Rosenfeld
[mailto:rosenfeld@netcologne.de] Sent: 18. januar 2001 09:44 To:
Kurt D. Zeilenga Cc: OpenLDAP Software Subject: backup (was:
slapcat cannot open database - why?)  Hi Kurt!   > >    slapcat:
could not open database.  > Make sure slapd is not running.  Ah,
many thanks, that helped.  But this doesn't help me with my
initial problem: I want to backup the LDAP server.  Is it safe
to backup the gdbm files only?  I personally would prefer to
backup a LDIF file, which can also be used on a machine with a
different hardware architecture.  That's why I was looking for
slapcat.  But on a production machine I cannot stop slapd while
running slapcat, because the server needs to be available all
the time.  So my new question is: how do you backup the data of
your LDAP servers?