I just started over with a new DB Thanks for your help //Ger

----------------original message----------------- From: "Ulrich Windl" Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de To: ghooton@scins.ie Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:07:51 +0200 -------------------------------------------------

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ghooton@scins.ie schrieb am 28.08.2013 um 18:37 in Nachricht

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Hi all, I am recovering form a disaster. when I do slapcat I can see all the info

Hi!

I think it depends on the type of desaster: For human error or filesystem corruption, you must probably restore your last successful database dump. If the machine just crashed (and the filesystem configuration was sane), there shouldn't be a problem with automatic recovery (IMHO).

Regards, Ulrich

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stored in the ldap db However, when I do ldapsearch I cannot see anything. When I do slapcat -l backup.ldif I get : unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered

I am using Debian 6 2.6.32-5-amd64 and :- ldapsearch -VV ldapsearch: @(#) $OpenLDAP: ldapsearch 2.4.23 (Dec 16 2012 11:48:21) $

root@carillon :/tmp/buildd/openldap-2.4.23/debian/build/clients/too ls (LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20423)

//Ger