RE: adding 4000 plus entries

["Joe Garcia" <jgarcia@gnncast.net>]

I am using the standard db backend, what are the advantages to db2??

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Kurt D.
> Zeilenga
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 5:11 PM
> To: gomez@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
> Cc: Joe Garcia; openldap-general
> Subject: Re: adding 4000 plus entries
> 
> 
> Juan Carlos Gomez wrote:
> > 
> > Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> > 
> > > At 05:02 PM 4/30/99 -0400, Joe Garcia wrote:
> > > >Hi I need to add 4000+ entries from an ldif file, I certainly 
> don't want to do
> > > >an ldapadd as this could take quite some time.  There are no 
> existing entries in
> > > >the ldap server now.  Someone want to give me a push in the 
> right direction.
> > >
> > > I recommend use actually use ldapadd to add items to the slapd
> > > so that entries are checked for schema violations.  If you are
> > > sure the LDIF is free of schema errors (or you just don't
> > > care), you can use ldif2ldbm(1).
> > >
> > > Kurt
> > 
> > /servers/slapd/tools/ldif2ldbm-bdb2
> > 
> > if using db2.....
> 
> back-bdb2 is -devel only!
>