Re: Copying database files from one platform to another

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Aaron Richton wrote:
> > Do the slapadd tool keep the operational attributes values ?
>
> It does not. See the slapadd man page.

Wrong. slapadd stores operational attribute values, also generating any 
that are missing.
> > If we try and copy the database, shall we see instantly if there is a
> > problem, or can it occur at any time ?
>
> slapadd has very little error checking versus adding through slapd. The 
> restrictions are detailed in the slapadd man page. If you feed slapadd 
> invalid data, but not so grossly invalid that slapadd errors out, it is 
> quite possible that lingering effects (missing parents, schema 
> violations, etc.) will "occur at any time" in the future. You basically 
> want your data to be clean enough for ldapadd, whether you use slapadd 
> or not.
>
> By the way, if you're going to be migrating anyway, you really don't 
> want to migrate from 2.2 to 2.2. Try the latest version of 2.3 available 
> at www.openldap.org.
>
> .

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