Can you please give me the best link for instructions to do this Thanks in advance --Venkat

-----Original Message----- From: matthew sporleder [mailto:msporleder@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:45 AM To: Venkat Reddy Valluri Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org Subject: Re: Can old database(ldbm, openldap-2.0.x) work with new database(ldbm openldap-2.3.27)

On 4/4/07, Venkat Reddy Valluri venkat.valluri@quinnfable.com wrote:

Hi, I recently installed OpenLdap-2.3.27 on my new redhat ES4. Can I use the old entries(Openldap 2.0.x) database(ldbm) on new Openldap-2.3.27. I copied all the entries and put it on the new server. but I am not able to read them in new server

You need to slapcat the old database and slapadd the data into the new one. (or with 2.0 slapcat might have been called ldbmcat or something like that)

On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Venkat Reddy Valluri wrote:

Can you please give me the best link for instructions to do this

Really, you could have found this very easily from the documentation, but, something like this should work:

[root@server1] service ldap stop [root@server1] slapcat -l backup.ldif [root@server1] scp backup.ldif server2:

[root@server2] service ldap stop [root@server2] slapadd -l backup.ldif [root@server2] service ldap start

(or, if you are using: http://anorien.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/buchan/openldap/rhel4/ :

[root@server2] service ldap2.3 stop [root@server2] slapadd2.3 -l backup.ldif [root@server2] service ldap2.3 start )

However, openldap 2.0 was very lax at schema checking, and 2.1 and later are a lot more strict, so you may have some cleanup to do before the slapadd ...

Regards, Buchan