RE: question about openldap restore with command sldapadd

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:03 AM +0800 xiaoming zhao 
<ericxiaomingzhao@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Quanah,
> All,
>
> So openldap can't skip to add the entry if there is already an existing
> entry?  in other database, the insert operation will check the entry
> exists or not. if exist, do nothing. if not exist, then insert it.  there
> are other operation like insertupdate.
>
> do we have any option to skip the existing entry?

slapadd is a tool used for BULK RESTORATION of the ENTIRE DB.  You can skip 
using -c, but it will skip ALL errors.  You are *not* using the right tool 
for what you are attempting to do.

If you want to do something else, try the ldapdiff utility 
(<http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/612.html>) and use that to diff 
your current db and your backup, and then use ldapadd to add the missing 
entries.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Architect - Server
Zimbra, Inc.
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