On 5/14/2014 3:11 PM, Michael Gettes wrote:
db2ldif gets you the text dump of the DB. it is my understanding, at
an object level, this gets you a reliable
backup of each entry although data throughout the store may be inconsistent while the
large file is being written.
i can tell you i do this regularly and it seems to work well, but i wonder about what
risks i am incurring with this
strategy besides what i already noted.
This does the equivalent of a table scan across the entries without
isolation.
So it is possible to end up with inconsistencies such as an entry
without its parent, although the chance of this occurring is low.