Re: moving ldap database and upgrading

["Maria McKinley" <parody@u.washington.edu>]

On 7/19/07, John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/18/07, Maria McKinley <parody@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am trying to move my ldap to a new machine to upgrade from
> > openldap2.2 to openldap2.3. I moved all of my config files and created
> > new certificates, but I am having difficulties. I am running on
> > Debian, and if I start slapd by /etc/init.d/slapd start, I get:
> >
> Did you export the database with slapcat and reimport it with slapadd?
>
> Here are the instructions I use (taken from a local wiki):
>
>  Export the ldap database to an ldif file
>
> This is done using slapcat.
>
> [root@ldap1 root]# slapcat > /home/Administrator/ldap1.20061006.ldif
>
>
> Stop the destination ldap server
>
> sysserv0 ~ # /etc/init.d/slapd stop
>
>
> Backup the old ldap database folder
>
> We can use tar here.
>
> sysserv0 ~ # tar cjf slapd.tar.bz2 /var/lib/openldap-data/
>
>
> Prepare the ldap folder
>
> sysserv0 ~ # rm /var/lib/openldap-data/*
> sysserv0 ~ # tar xjf /root/slapd.tar.bz2 var/lib/openldap-data/DB_CONFIG

I don't get this. You tar the entire openldap-data folder, but then
empty it into a new directory called DB_CONFIG? This step I was not
doing, so it must be what is wrong, but it doesn't make sense to me.

thanks,
maria


> Import the ldap database
>
> sysserv0 ~ # slapadd -l /home/Administrator/ldap1.20061006.ldif
> sysserv0 ~ # chown ldap:ldap /var/lib/openldap-data/*
>
>
> Start the destination ldap server
>
> sysserv0 ~ # /etc/init.d/slapd start
>
> John


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Maria Mckinley
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