On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 12:02:10PM +0000, Roderick wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Allan Streib wrote:
>
> > With OpenLDAP slapd I would run slapcat periodically to dump out the
> > directory in LDIF format for backup.
> >
> > What is the best approach for backing up ldapd?
>
> Good to know that not only I have problems learning the most
> elementary things about (open)ldap. I also would like to know
> the answer to this question. I also would do what the OP does,
> but also save the configuration (slapcat -b cn=config) that
> is also stored as ldap. Or perhaps the solution is to see where
> openldap saves the data in the file system and back up that as
> normal files.
>
> At some point, with a lot of effort, I did undestood the simple
> principles of how this hierarchical db works. But it is inflated,
> also all documentation, with something that has the taste of big
> burocracy. ldap is awful.
>
FWIW, I run something like:
# ldapsearch -x -H ldaps://myserver -D "cn=admin,dc=ldap" -W \
-b "dc=ldap" -LLL > ldapd-"`date +%Y%m%d`".ldif
This can be imported back later on.
I once had an issue with unreadable password when importing a dump from
i386 to amd64 server. But from amd64 to another amd64 server, no issue.
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