Re: Do I need using slapindex?

[Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 11:40:37 AM +0100 Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> wrote:

> Olivier PAVILLA writes:
> > I have LDAP server on a fedora core 5 which is running for more than 3
> > years without any update nor upgrade neither. So now I've to migate this
> > LDAP on a new server with new Linux distribution (Debian Lenny 5.0.7 64
> > bits). Should I or do I need to use slapindex before I use slapcat to
> > export in ldif file?
>
> Nope.  Just run slapcat with the old software, upgrade, move away the
> old database contents, slapadd the ldif back.

I would consider installing Debian squeeze though.  It is very close to
release and it has a much newer version of OpenLDAP, 2.4.23.

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University