Openldap update problem

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

Hm..I know that there's been several threads on this list about how to 
manage a multi-day backup scheme, and it's covered *very* well in an 
O'Reilly Book "Unix Backup".  Well worth the read.

Ben

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:

> The backups I keep simply copy once a night to a failover machine.  
> 
> When the new RPMs were installed, the backup, backed up the empty
> database...
> 
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> Ryan Golhar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin J. Weiss [mailto:benjamin at weiss.name] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:24 PM
> To: golharam at umdnj.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Openldap update problem
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> 
> > This morning, I came in to work and was told no one could log on to 
> > any of the linux machines.  After some digging, I checked the LDAP 
> > directory and found out it was totally empty -- it was overwritten.
> > 
> > I was able to recreate it based on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but 
> > then proceeded to find out why.  I found out that last night, new ldap
> 
> > rpms were installed by up2date:
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > I've now marked ldap to be skipped in updates, but am curious if this 
> > is normal behaviour.
> > 
> > Thank god I keep everything in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow just in 
> > case.
> 
> Don't you keep backups?  It would probably have been easier to just 
> restore the file that got over-written, wouldn't it?
> 
> Ben
>