Re: migrating to another server - restore problem - slapcat slapadd

[Christophe Dumonet <Christophe.Dumonet@ifma.fr>]

actually , this server is powered by Red Hat 7.3....So I'm migrating to 
fedora core 8 on Vmware ESX.
thanks,
Christophe.

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Christophe Dumonet
Centre de Ressources Informatiques
Institut Francais de Mecanique Avancee (IFMA)
Campus des Cezeaux
BP 265
63175 AUBIERE Cedex
Tel : +33 - 4.73.28.80.64
Fax : +33 - 4.73.28.81.00
Mail : Christophe.Dumonet@ifma.fr
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Howard Chu a écrit :
> Christophe Dumonet wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have solved the problem with JXplorer , which can export an ldap
> > database in ldif format with hierachical order by default.
> > ( the openldap version is 2.0..... and the slapcat utility doesn't had
> > the -a option to filter .....)
>
> OpenLDAP 2.0 is something like 7 or 8 years out of date. Since you're 
> migrating to a new server, you really should use this opportunity to 
> upgrade to something newer that works better.
>
> > Have a nice day,
> > Christophe Dumonet, From france.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Christophe Dumonet
> > Centre de Ressources Informatiques
> > Institut Francais de Mecanique Avancee (IFMA)
> > Campus des Cezeaux
> > BP 265
> > 63175 AUBIERE Cedex
> > Tel : +33 - 4.73.28.80.64
> > Fax : +33 - 4.73.28.81.00
> > Mail : Christophe.Dumonet@ifma.fr
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > Howard Chu a écrit :
> > > Christophe Dumonet wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I'm migrating from an old openldap server to a new one.
> > > >
> > > > So, I have done a dump of the ldap database with a " slapcat -l
> > > > mydump.ldap -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -b "dc=mycompany,dc=com"
> > > >       -->   So I had a dump ldif file where organisational units 
> > > > and dn
> > > > are
> > > > not in hierarchical order.
> > > >
> > > > In my new server  ( which works fine , I can ldapadd some ou,dn , no
> > > > problem)
> > > >    -->   The slapadd command doesn't work because my ldap data in 
> > > > the ldif
> > > > file is not in hierarchical order.
> > > You must still be using an extremely old version of OpenLDAP. Since
> > > OpenLDAP 2.2/back-bdb you can slapadd in any order.
> > >
> > > > I can't re-order manually this because it's a important database ( the
> > > > ldif -->   50Mo).
> > > >
> > > > My slapadd command to restore is : slapadd -l mydump.ldif -f
> > > > /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -b "dc=mycompany,dc=com"
> > > > and the errors are relative to the ldif OU order, I had trying to
> > > > cut/paste in the ldif file some OUs to reorder and errors are 
> > > > reporting
> > > > to another OUs...which are not in hierachical order !
> > > >
> > > > How can I do to restore quickly my data to my new server ?
> > > > Any help would be appreciated,
> > > > Christophe Dumonet, From france