LDAP database

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:09 -0700, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> Is is safe to compress an ldap database or a mysql database for archival 
> purposes?
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I'm gathering that the reason that you are asking is because you want a
backup of the binary blob data files which in both cases is probably the
least desirable method of backing up.

A decent backup for either mysql or ldap would be a mysqldump or slapcat
which would be a text file which could be piped to tar to simultaneously
dump the data and compress it and I wouldn't be surprised if mysqldump
had a tar/zip function built into it's client software to do this on the
fly.

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Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>