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Re: Upgrade Ubuntu server will purge OpenLDAP data
- To: Onno van der Straaten <onno.van.der.straaten@gmail.com>
- Subject: Re: Upgrade Ubuntu server will purge OpenLDAP data
- From: Brendan Kearney <bpk678@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:10:51 -0500
- Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org
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On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 13:21 +0100, Onno van der Straaten wrote:
> Because this is so unexpected and it impacts OpenLDAP installations, I
> though I share this information here.
>
>
> Ubuntu server upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 LTS will purge the OpenLDAP
> directory data. I don't understand why the or a upgrade would want to
> purge data but that is what happens. I can't find anything on the
> internet explaining why this is unavoidable and necessary.
>
>
> From what I have learned so far the best way to recover from this is
> to completly remove OpenLDAP and start a fresh installation and import
> data from backup. I'm sure you will have it, for exactly this types of
> situations that are I'm afraid typical for OpenLDAP.
>
>
> The reason is that it is unclear what state the upgrade leaves
> OpenLDAP in. I think it will take more time to figure out what was
> purged, what not, what was changed than it takes to do a complete
> reinstall.
>
>
stab in the dark. is there an update to the filesystems used (ext3/4 to
xfs or something)?