Am Mi., 16. März 2022 um 19:31 Uhr schrieb Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>: > > > > --On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 7:59 PM +0100 Meike Stone > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > what is the right solution to backup a Mirromode setup? > > I've a simple setup with two servers, running in mirromode and a > > virtual IP is moved on "request" between the two servers (nodes). The > > DNS-Name of the virtual IP is used for the client ldap requests. The > > server certificate is issued to the DNS name of the virtual IP, but > > has two SANs for the both node names. The node names will be used for > > replication in mirrormode. Everything is running well. > > Can I set up a third (readonly) server, who only replicates the > > Database from the "mirromode cluster'' using the DNS-Name without > > problems and then shutdown slapd temporarily and splacat the database? > > You don't need to shut down slapd to slapcat the database, so I'm not clear > what the concern is here? You should just do a periodic slapcat. > We are still using the bdb backend and the latest 2.4.59 (don't ask, it will be replaced soon) and I remember, a "few" years ago, I had problems with slapcat and online databases, because the server was stucking for a while and answers were delayed .. (The Admin Guide tells, that "Backups are managed slightly differently" ...) Secondly, while offline, I can copy the whole database directory including the transaction logs ..
Thanks Meike
