Re: migrating to another server - restore problem - slapcat slapadd

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Christophe Dumonet wrote:
> Hello,
> I have solved the problem with JXplorer , which can export an ldap
> database in ldif format with hierachical order by default.
> ( the openldap version is 2.0..... and the slapcat utility doesn't had
> the -a option to filter .....)

OpenLDAP 2.0 is something like 7 or 8 years out of date. Since you're 
migrating to a new server, you really should use this opportunity to upgrade 
to something newer that works better.

> Have a nice day,
> Christophe Dumonet, From france.
>
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>
> Howard Chu a écrit :
> > Christophe Dumonet wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm migrating from an old openldap server to a new one.
> > >
> > > So, I have done a dump of the ldap database with a " slapcat -l
> > > mydump.ldap -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -b "dc=mycompany,dc=com"
> > >       -->   So I had a dump ldif file where organisational units and dn
> > > are
> > > not in hierarchical order.
> > >
> > > In my new server  ( which works fine , I can ldapadd some ou,dn , no
> > > problem)
> > >    -->   The slapadd command doesn't work because my ldap data in the ldif
> > > file is not in hierarchical order.
> > You must still be using an extremely old version of OpenLDAP. Since
> > OpenLDAP 2.2/back-bdb you can slapadd in any order.
> >
> > > I can't re-order manually this because it's a important database ( the
> > > ldif -->   50Mo).
> > >
> > > My slapadd command to restore is : slapadd -l mydump.ldif -f
> > > /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -b "dc=mycompany,dc=com"
> > > and the errors are relative to the ldif OU order, I had trying to
> > > cut/paste in the ldif file some OUs to reorder and errors are reporting
> > > to another OUs...which are not in hierachical order !
> > >
> > > How can I do to restore quickly my data to my new server ?
> > > Any help would be appreciated,
> > > Christophe Dumonet, From france


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