Backupninja cannot back up LDAP w. cn=config backend

[Morten Siebuhr]

Binary package hint: backupninja

In Intrepid (8.10), backupninja (0.9.5-3) cannot back up OpenLDAP, as it cannot find the configuration file /etc/ldap/slapd.conf.

[Morten Siebuhr (msiebuhr)]

From reading the source, I found a workaround that permits taking backups without changing the source code:

The LDAP configuration file should read as:

databases = cn=config dc=example,dc=com
binddn = cn=admin,cn=config
passwordfile = /etc/ldapscripts/ldapscripts.passwd
ldaphost = ldap.example.com
conf = /etc/ldap/ldap.conf

There are two hacks here: the passwordfile should be a file with the LDAP master password - as I already have ldapscripts installed, I reuse that file. The configuration file is NOT set to /etc/ldap/slapd.conf, as it does not exist and that causes the entire script to fail - but as we give it all needed options ourselves, we can just give it any other file...

[Morten Siebuhr (msiebuhr)]

Hacked backend for handling cn=config backends. I have not tested it with any other setups than Ubuntus recommended setup (i.e. different database types, different names for the cn=config tree, ...)

Should either go in the source at lp:backupninja/handlers/ldapconf.in or on a running system at /usr/share/backupninja/ldapconf.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This issue is tracked at https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/2767

[Sergey Svishchev (svs)]

Quoting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596935

"As of backupninja 0.9.10, the LDAP handler is not shipped anymore."

[Morten Siebuhr (msiebuhr)]

Backup Ninja doesn't ship that particular backend any more (see comment #4).