diff --git a/etc/backup.d/example.ldap b/etc/backup.d/example.ldap
index ab48ad1e840740d079b64a75d6fd56e596e26f6a..c35081bfe9dd99cdaf731b55c05956a99b053aea 100644
--- a/etc/backup.d/example.ldap
+++ b/etc/backup.d/example.ldap
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 ## ldapsearch is the safer method to do backups, but is slow, slapcat
 ## is much faster, but should not be done on an ldbm backend unless you have
 ## restart set to yes
+## NOTE: with the ldapsearch method passwordfile and binddn need to be set
 # method = ldapsearch
 
 ## passwordfile (no default): this should be set to the file that contains