Re: ispman bdb database howto ? Wim ?

Hi Win, Normando and all,

the recover

db4.2_recover -h /var/lib/ldap

worked fine.

Thank you for the script and for the help.

Ciao.
Ezio.

At 23.03 18/05/05, you wrote:
>Hi Ezio,
>
>Ezio Paglia wrote:
>
>>I tried to manage the value of  the cachesize, but with no results and 
>>the same error.
>>If I copy a new installation of ispman ldap over the /var/lib/ldap 
>>directory, slapd works; so I think that the db files are actually corrupted.
>>Do you know a pratical way to manage them ?
>
>Try:
>
>db4.2_recover -h /var/lib/ldap
>
>The command may be slightly different depending on the version of the db 
>tools that you have installed.
>
>Once you have a working database, look at creating some backups :-)
>Because of all the problems and the inherit design problem of no audit 
>trails in LDAP, I wrote a script to dump the database several times a day. 
>Can be run as many times as desired, since it creates a timestamped file. 
>This gets backed up locally, in addition to daily backups of the entire server.
>
>Wim
>
>#!/bin/bash
>
># this script creates very paranoid backups of the LDAP database
># by Wim Kerkhoff
>
>FOLDER=`date +%Y/%m/%d`
>FILE=`date +%H:%M:%S`
>BASE=/home/system-backups/controller01/ldap
>BZIP=/usr/bin/bzip2
>SLAPCAT=/usr/sbin/slapcat
>LDAPSEARCH=/usr/bin/ldapsearch
>
>#echo "let's put it in: $FOLDER/$FILE"
>
>mkdir -p $BASE/$FOLDER
>
>killall ispman-agent
>/etc/init.d/slapd stop
>$SLAPCAT | $BZIP - > $BASE/$FOLDER/${FILE}.slapcat.dat.bz2
>/etc/init.d/slapd start
>#$LDAPSEARCH -x | $BZIP - > $BASE/$FOLDER/${FILE}.ldapsearch.dat.bz2
>/etc/init.d/ispman-agent start

Ezio Paglia
Servizi Informatici (SED)
Comune di Grosseto



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