Hi <br><br>I want to migrate our openldap db backend which currently using idbm to bdb, Matt have suggested following steps, would you please kind enough to put some more light on few steps<br><br>&lt;snip&gt;<br>Migrate to BDB or HDB.&nbsp; Here&#39;s the rough idea:
<br>shutdown slapd<br>slapcat -f /path/to/slapd.conf -l mydb.ldif<br>vi /path/to/slapd.conf<br>&nbsp;Change your database to a new directory.<br>&nbsp;Read about tuning, cache sizing, and other stuff.<br>&nbsp;Read openldap man pages. ( what to read ;) 
<br>&nbsp;Read oracle&#39;s tuning docs for bdb. (we are not using any oracle things)<br>&nbsp;Re-Read openldap man pages. (re-read for what :-S<br>:wq<br>slapadd -f /path/to/slapd.conf -l mydb.ldif<br><br>Fix permissions on /var/run so the slapd user can write there -- this
<br>one is pretty easy<br>&lt;/snip&gt;<br><br>Secondly, to be safe side, if something goes wrong, taking backup of ...<br><br>directory&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /var/lib/ldap/mydomain.com<br><br>cp -r /var/lib/ldap/mydomain.com /TosomeSafePlace
<br><br>is enough to fallback to ibdm?<br><br>I want minimum downtime, heh frankly I can&#39;t aford my ass on fire :P<br><br>Thanks. Askar