Export contacts from a Windows AddressBook (.wab) to LDAP

This article was first written in December 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/193).
Convert your .wab file with libwab - turns Windows Address Book (WAB) files into ldif. Then, import the newly-created ldif file into your LDAP server, after having adapted the entries if needed. See also the Libpst project.

OpenLDAP

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/153).
OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

OpenLDAP online backups

This article was first written in June 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/269).
For BDB and HDB backends only, online backups (ie without stopping slapd to backup) are possible with slapcat. For example, to backup the directory "dc=example,dc=com" to /tmp/ldap-backup.ldif:
slapcat -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -b "dc=example,dc=com" -l /tmp/ldap-backup.ldif
For other backends, the best solution is to replicate to another LDAP server and backup this one. See also: