Re: Migrating from 1.2 to 2.0.12?

[Werner Jansen <jansenw@cs.tum.edu>]

It's me again ....

Does anybody know a script helping to convert LDIF from LDAPv2 to
LDAPv3? I cannot believe that nobody faced this problem before ... :-)

Hoping For An Answer ... :-)

CU
Werner

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> 
> > Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Folks!
> > > >
> > > > I want to migrate from openldap 1.2 to 2.0.12.
> > > > How can I convert / migrate my data?
> > > >
> > > > I tried to export my data as LDIF (ldbmcat) and re-import it with
> > > > slapadd. Did not
> > > > work with the following error message:
> > > > slapadd: str2entry: invalid value for syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15
> > >
> > > You need to manually edit the offending attribute values to make
> > > them comply with the appropriate syntax.  Check the schema files
> > > (or directly the appropriate rfc, 2252 and related) to determine
> > > what bytes do not comply.
> >
> > slapadd complains that the error is in line 1665. As far as I know
> > lines starting with a blank are continued lines.
> > so I wrote a script that concatenates these lines. line 1665 is now:
> > nsliversion: 1
> 
> I'll check again; however I thik the line count is intended _BEFORE_ wrapping
> 
> >
> > This line occurs about 500 times in my LDIF data file. slapadd does
> > not complain about this line earlier in my LDIF file.
> > So what did I do wrong when counting the lines?
> >
> > Another question: Is the order of the nodes being inserted relevant? I
> > mean, if I insert a node referring to an node not being inserted yet
> > (with an "owner"-attribute),  does this work with slapadd?
> > ldapadd would complain, no question, but how is this with slapadd?
> > Does slapadd do a integritycheck on the data? (I guess not, but don't
> > know exactly)
> 
> Again, I'll check, but I think it is not. slapadd basically checks for
> syntax, not for tree consistency.
> 
> Pierangelo.