[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#673038: Re: Bug#673038: Bug#673038: slapd: slapcat output truncated every now and then

[Balint Reczey]

forwarded 673038 technical at openldap.org
thanks

Hi,

I have forwarded the problem to technical at openldap.org but it has not
yet appeared in the list archive.

It worth noting that there exists a script [1] in ldap-git-backup which
can be used for backing up LDAP databases more reliably.

Cheers,
Balint

[1]
https://github.com/elmar/ldap-git-backup/blob/master/README.mdown#safe-ldif

On 06/19/2012 06:27 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:25 PM +0200 Axel Beckert
> <abe at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Steve Langasek wrote:
>>> > According to the slapcat man page it should be "always safe to run
>>> > slapcat with the slapd-bdb(5) ... backends" even if slapd runs. We do
>>> > use a BDB backend.
>>>
>>> Note that the HDB backend is the one recommended upstream and the
>>> Debian
>>> default.
>>
>> Well, yeah, that system has been dist-upgraded from at least Etch.
>> IIRC it started at some time when BDB was still the default.
>>
>> I wrote that -- according to our backups -- this happened already with
>> Lenny's slapd. But with Lenny it seemed to have happened less often
>> (which is why we noticed it only recently).
>
> Personally, I would advise you to ask a question about this on
> openldap-technical at openldap.org.  I asked Howard about it, and he had
> a ready answer as to why you were seeing this, but I forget what it
> is.  In any case, this is not a debian specific openldap bug.
>


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