On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:17:19PM +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote: > In the same vein you could argue that we should have nightly pg_dumpalls > etc. I'd say that backups should be left to the administrator instead. > Provide the scripts as examples of how to do a backup, but leave it as > that. Except that, generally speaking, if any other database server blows up, the system still functions. When openldap blows up, if you are using it for authentication, bad things happen. > If openldap tends to eat the directory, this needs to be fixed > rather than installing such a backup script by default (which is not > a real fix). I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. Again, I'm just using the example of rpm, which has a cron job that dumps to /var/log/rpmpkgs. That's *really* helped me a couple of times now... Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-3000 Mobile: (618)567-7320
