3.1.1.3.3.9 dumpDatabase

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This operation is triggered by setting the attribute to a space-separated list of attributes. The requester MUST be a member of the BUILTIN\Administrators group (section 6.1.1.4.12.2).

The following shows an LDIF sample that performs this operation for the description attribute ([MS-ADA1] section 2.153) and sn attribute ([MS-ADA3] section 2.275).

 dn: 
 changetype: modify 
 add: dumpDatabase 
 dumpDatabase: description sn 
 -

The effects of dumpDatabase are outside the state model. An update of dumpDatabase causes the contents of the DC's database to be written to a text file on the DC's disk. All the attributes specified in the dumpDatabase value are included in the dump, except that certain security-sensitive attributes are omitted from the dump even if requested. The dump can include attributes that were not explicitly requested.