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Creating a backup of an LDAP directory is both useful and simple. So simple that it can be setup for periodic backups with rsnapshot in just a few commands.

• 1. Create backup script to dump LDAP directory
  

  sudo vi /usr/local/bin/backup_ldap.sh
  

#!/bin/bash
#Script to dump LDAP directory
slapcat -l backup.ldif

• 2. Make the script executable
  

  sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/backup_ldap.sh
  

• 3. Add script to rsnapshot to the bottom of configuration, remember to keep tab-delimitation
  

  sudo vi /etc/rsnapshot.conf
  

...
backup_script /usr/local/bin/backup_ldap.sh localhost/ldapdump/
...