Re: Guide for upgrading from 2.2.x to 2.3.x

[matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>]

This advice lives here: (and could probably due with some expansion)
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/842.html

On 1/20/06, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu> wrote:
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> --On Friday, January 20, 2006 7:56 AM -0500 Sean Hussey
> <seanhussey@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Are there any guides or FAQs on upgrading from 2.2.x to 2.3.x?  THere
> > seem to be significant advantages to running 2.3 over 2.2, but I'm
> > unsure of whether or not I can do an in-place upgrade or need to have
> > a more robust staging plan.
> >
> > We currently have 1 master and 3 children syncing through slurpd.
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> I don't think there is one, but basically you'll need to slapcat your
> existing database (2.2) and then slapadd it back in (2.3) since the
> database format changed some.  You will also want to verify that your ACL's
> work correctly.  I suggest setting up a test system and doing some basic
> checks.  Some things also changed names (proxycache->pcache), etc.
>
> --Quanah