Re: Index repair after power outage

[Andrew Bacchi <bacchi@rpi.edu>]

Can't you restore a good copy of the db from a backup?  I have done this 
in the past.  

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Jesper Dalberg wrote:

> Hiyas,
> 
> We got a huge amount of entries in our openldap setup, and after an
> unfortunate power outage, som of the entries seem to be "ghosting", not
> there on ldapsearch but there when u try to add them. That leads me to
> believe the the index files have been corrupted somehow. We tried to
> rebuild using slapindex, but with no luck.
> 
> What do I do? Slapcat and import? That wont bring back the "ghosting"
> entries, but it will probably clean up the indexes. Only downside is
> that we have 1,4 mio. entries (!)
> 
> /Jesper Dalberg
> 

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