Quanah,
All,

So openldap can't skip to add the entry if there is already an existing entry? in other database, the insert operation will check the entry exists or not. if exist, do nothing. if not exist, then insert it. there are other operation like insertupdate.

do we have any option to skip the existing entry?

Thanks,
Eric.

> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:28:21 -0700
> From: quanah@zimbra.com
> To: ericxiaomingzhao@hotmail.com; openldap-technical@openldap.org
> Subject: RE: question about openldap restore with command sldapadd
>
>
> --On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:30 PM +0800 xiaoming zhao
> <ericxiaomingzhao@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > quanah,
> >
> > Thanks for your reponse. maybe I didn't specify case clearly.
> >
> > we backup the files. then we have to do full installation of the sytem
> > (with new release), in this new installation, we had new data created in
> > openldap during the installation. then we manually restore the data with
> > sldapadd, and the new data creaetd during the full installation was lost
> > because of the old backup file don't include these new data created
> > during full installation.
>
> Sounds like you should restore the backup file as part of the new full
> installation as one of the first steps. That's what we do with Zimbra.
>
> --Quanah
>
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>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Architect - Server
> Zimbra, Inc.
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