Backup and Restore LDAP notes.

Maybe useful for you, but mostly they are notes for me.


Backups: Backup data with slapcat (e.g., slapcat -v -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -l /path/to/backup/$(date +%Y%m%d).ldif). To ensure consistency, slapd should not be running during backups.

Restoration:To do a full restore from backup, first stop slapd and remove all ldap data (e.g., rm /usr/local/var/openldap-data/ for source installations or rm /var/lib/ldap/* for Debian installations). Then use slapadd to load data from the ldif backup (e.g., slapadd -v -c -l example.ldif -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf for source installations or slapadd -v -c -l backup.ldif -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf for Debian installations). Then run slapindex and start slapd.