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... > > ----- > Ryan Golhar > Computational Biologist > The Informatics Institute at > The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ > > Phone: 973-972-5034 > Fax: 973-972-7412 > Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin J. Weiss [mailto:benjamin@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:24 PM > To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
