Re: Can't import ldif file

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:27 AM -0700 Kristen Walker 
<kwalker@sbceo.org> wrote:

> Hello - apologies if this is a dumb question, I am an LDAP newbie.  I have
> an LDAP server on another machine and I need to duplicate it, but I am
> having trouble importing the ldif file.
>
> I do a dump of the LDAP data with this command:
>
> nice slapcat > /home/upadmin/uportal_ldap_backups/`date
> +%m%d%Y_%H%M`_ldap_backup.ldif
>
>
> I move the resulting ldif file to my other server and test the import:
>
> slapadd -v -u -c -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -l
> /root/08052009_0647_ldap_backup.ldif
>
> The output seems good - I get:
>
> added: "dc=sbceoportal,dc=org"
> added: "ou=Users,dc=sbceoportal,dc=org"
> added: "ou=Groups,dc=sbceoportal,dc=org"
> added: "ou=System,dc=sbceoportal,dc=org"
> added: "cn=LDAP Admins,ou=Groups,dc=sbceoportal,dc=org"
> .#################### 100.00% eta   none elapsed            none fast!
>
> Then I run the command to do the real import:
>
> slapadd -v -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -l
> /root/08052009_0647_ldap_backup.ldif
>
> And the import hangs on the first record.  This is the output I get:
>
> bdb_monitor_db_open: monitoring disabled; configure monitor database to
> enable
> added: "dc=sbceoportal,dc=org" (00000001)
>
>
> And it just seems to sit there and never finish.  Anyone have any idea
> what is going on or anything I can do to troubleshoot this?

A couple of things:

Do you have a DB_CONFIG file?

Does the progress bar show up?

Does the server you are adding to already have a database?

Have you thought about using the "-q" flag to slapadd?

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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