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Support #166

Updated by Daniel Curtis over 11 years ago

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 
 <pre> 
 sudo vi /usr/local/bin/backup_ldap.sh 
 </pre> 
 > #!/bin/bash 
 > #Script to dump LDAP directory 
 > slapcat -l backup.ldif /var/backups/backup.ldif 
 * 2. Make the script executable 
 <pre> 
 sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/backup_ldap.sh 
 </pre> 
 * 3. Add script to rsnapshot to the bottom of configuration, remember to keep tab-delimitation  
 <pre> 
 sudo vi /etc/rsnapshot.conf 
 </pre> 
 > ... 
 > backup_script     /usr/local/bin/backup_ldap.sh      localhost/ldapdump/ localhost/ 
 > ... 

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