Re: Possible to recover data in .gdbm files?

[David Young <dyoung@nettonettech.com>]

I don't know whether this does what you need or not but have you looked at
the slapindex command?

http://www.OpenLDAP.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapindex

> From: "Dana R. Canfield" <canfield@uindy.edu>
> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:59:12 -0500 (EST)
> To: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
> Subject: Possible to recover data in .gdbm files?
> 
> I made a typo and managed to blow away my index2entry file.  I have a
> backup, so it's not the end of the world, but this backup is old enough
> that there is were probably a significant number of changes.  All of the
> other .gdbm files are still intact.  Is there any way to either rebuild
> the index2entry file based on these other files, or to at least get the
> info in the other files into some format so that I can somehow manually
> replace some of the data?
> 
> Any other suggestions would also be greatly appreciated.
> 
> DC
> 
> 
>