From my understanding of your question, if you rebuild and install LDAP
you risk losing all the information stored in your LDAP directory. You should consider backing up your entire directory and then re-import it again. I would also backup your slapd.conf and any other configuration files. Understanding how to backup and restore and LDAP database is one of the most fundamental principles in LDAP administration.
Some commands you may want to look at include:
slapcat <--Dumps the entire LDAP directory, see man page ldapsearch <-- carefully crafted LDAP searches can be used too dump data into LDIF format
On a side note, I am not 100% certain if you can just "reuse" your old LDAP databases? Anyone from the list care to comment because I would like to know too.
There may be others as well. The thing I like about OpenLDAP, is it that it provides a pretty basic, nuts and bolts LDAP implementation.
Thanks,
- Randall Svancara Systems Administrator
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:52 +0530, Padmavathi Dt wrote:
Philip, Thanks for your response.I have a doubt. What happens to the data in current LDAP,if I rebuild it and install it again? Should I create all the users again?
I dont know much about LDAP(even after reading the admin guide many times).So i dont know whether it is a meaningful doubt or not. Kindly clarify my doubt as soon as possible because I am approaching my deadline.. Thanx in advance.. =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you