RE: Openldap upgrade/migration

["Ravi Rajasekharuni" <ravi.rajasekharuni@au.issworld.com>]

Thanks Quanah for a quick reply.

The old LINUX 6.2 server running openldap 1.2 is not operational, but
all the old files (/etc/openldap, /usr/share/openldap (database) are
available on a new LINUX server running Red hat Enterprise Linux 4. How
can I export openldap data from old files sitting on this new Linux
server.? I believe the slapcat command is only recognizes openldap 2.x
databases.

Is there any other way of exporting data from old openldap 1.2 version
data files using a latest version of openldap tools.

Please advice.

Regards,

-Ravi
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-----Original Message-----
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@zimbra.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 12:32 AM
To: Ravi Rajasekharuni; openldap-software@openldap.org
Subject: Re: Openldap upgrade/migration

--On Monday, October 22, 2007 8:33 AM +1000 Ravi Rajasekharuni 
<ravi.rajasekharuni@au.issworld.com> wrote:

> Please respond.

The method for moving from one version of OpenLDAP to another (and this
is 
pretty consistent with all directory servers) is to use LDIF.  In
openldap, 
you'd generate the LDIF file for export from your old server using the 
slapcat command.  Since you no longer have a running server, I'm not
quite 
sure how you expect to proceed on any of this.  I wish you luck.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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