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Re: Correct procedure to backup LDAP?
Quoting Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>:
>
>
> --On Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:08 PM +0800 Roger Thomas
> <sniper@home.net.my> wrote:
>
> > Quoting Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>:
> >
> >> Why in the world are you using ldbm? It is a known problematic
> >> database
> >> that has been removed from OpenLDAP 2.4, so it is not portable
> going
> >>
> >> forward. I highly advise using one of the supported backends (bdb
> or
> >> hdb).
> >
> > Am currently running the old 2.0.5 on ldbm. Now how do I upgrade to
> 2.4?
> > I mean how do I convert my existing records in ldbm format to bdb
> or hdb?
> >
> > I am no expert, please go slow. TIA.
>
> Well, to start, I wouldn't go to 2.4 quite yet, it is only in alpha.
> But I
> would upgrade to 2.3.25+.
>
> To upgrade, you will need to export your database into LDIF format,
> either
> via ldapsearch or slapcat.
>
> Then you'll need to import that LDIF file into a server running the
> newer
> version of OpenLDAP (preferably with slapadd). I will note that OL
> 2.0 was
> not very strict on data validation, so you may need to clean up the
> data in
> your LDIF file some before an import will work correctly.
OK. I think it shouldn't be too difficult to perform the export and import stuff. What I am dead worried is the validation stuff. Can you provide some example as to why a validation process would fail and how to correct them?
> You'll also need to set up a slapd.conf file that corresponds to the
> newer
> syntaxes in 2.3. Reading the Admin Guide & Quickstart Guide @
> <http://www.openldap.org> is probably a good start for that.
>
> --Quanah
>
>
> --
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Developer
> ITS/Shared Application Services
> Stanford University
> GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
>
--
Roger
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