While they aren’t always installed by default, the programs dump and restore are great tools for backing up and restoring ext4 filesystems. They are flexible and easy to use. dump/restore features: Support for full, differential, and incremental backups Can read from and write to standard input and standard ouput When writing to removable media, it… Read More »
Rsync backups are versatile. You can can create full, differential and incremental backups of a directory. Rsync can backup files locally or remotely. Local Backups If you are backing up to another directory, removable storage, or a locally mounted network file system, then you will be creating local backups. Creating Local Backups To create a… Read More »
This guide assumes familiarity with UNIX like operating systems, X.500, LDAP and OpenLDAP. The Directory Backups section of the OpenLDAP 2.4 Administrator’s Guide, as of September 28, 2016, doesn’t have any kind of restoration procedures. This guide will help you do it. Backup OpenLDAP There are two methods for backing up OpenLDAP. One is to… Read More »