Re: Restoring with SLAPADD

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Delete an entry.  Oops, I need it back.  Stop the master (and slave), "rm 
> *.bdb __*", "slapadd -nX < slap.out", start the master and slave, check 
> the slave, and the deleted entry has reappeared.

If you need back a single entry or just a few entries I'd rather 
try to extract them from slapcat-generated LDIF, remove the 
entryCSN attributes and slapadd them, not the whole database. From 
my understanding new entryCSN would be generated and the 
contextCSN would be increased. Howard, is this correct?

Still I'd use slapadd if you can accept the down-time needed 
instead of normal ldapadd since the entryUUID and other 
operational attributes are preserved which can be a real 
requirement in case some other data syncing is based on that.
(Using ldapadd with Relax Rules Control formerly known as Manage 
DIT control would be another option to restore the entry with the 
operational attributes.)

Ciao, Michael.