Am 13.11.2012 um 08:45 schrieb Gelen James: > 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. for the "online" backup i suggest export DESTBACKUPFILE=$(date +%Y%m%d).ldif ldapsearch -x -b dc=example,dc=com -D cn=manager,dc=example,dc=com -w $(cat /etc/ldap.secret) > "$DESTBACKUPFILE" -- LF