Hi Quanah,
You are correct. I misspoke. We ran "bdb" in OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.50 (Aug 6 2020 11:11:46). We switched to "mdb" when we went from 2.4.50 to 2.6.x version. The upgrade path, as mentioned, was a clean install of 2.6.x and export of db (slapcat) and import(slapadd).
Regards, Suresh
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@fast-mail.org wrote:
--On Monday, January 6, 2025 6:47 PM -0500 Suresh Veliveli Suresh.Veliveli@georgetown.edu wrote:
It was "bdb". For migration, we did a clean install, used "slapcat" to export the db and "slapadd" to import. We used this procedure a number of times in the past when we switched OS, for upgrades etc. Do you have a recommended procedure in mind?
We did an upgrade from 2.6.3 to 2.6.7 at the same time, changing the backend db to "mdb". I think that's when we started to notice that consumer replication is not recovering. So we upgraded again to 2.6.8 to now 2.6.9.
There was no bdb backend in the 2.6 series. It was removed after the 2.4 series, so the upgrade route you describe is not feasible.
--Quanah