RE: Can old database(ldbm, openldap-2.0.x) work with new database(ldbm openldap-2.3.27)

["Venkat Reddy Valluri" <venkat.valluri@quinnfable.com>]

Can you please give me the best link for instructions to do this
Thanks in advance
--Venkat

-----Original Message-----
From: matthew sporleder [mailto:msporleder@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:45 AM
To: Venkat Reddy Valluri
Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org
Subject: Re: Can old database(ldbm, openldap-2.0.x) work with new
database(ldbm openldap-2.3.27)


On 4/4/07, Venkat Reddy Valluri <venkat.valluri@quinnfable.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I recently installed OpenLdap-2.3.27 on my new redhat ES4.   Can I use the old entries(Openldap 2.0.x) database(ldbm)  on new Openldap-2.3.27.
>    I copied all the entries and put it on the new server. but I am not able to read them in new server


You need to slapcat the old database and slapadd the data into the new one.
(or with 2.0 slapcat might have been called ldbmcat or something like that)