[389-users] Best practice of taking a backup of current LDAP and restore that into a new server

[Fosiul Alam]

Hi thanks

my ldap is like this

l=uk,dc=fosiul,dc=lan

then it has OU=Users
OU=Grups

what shall be the command  for bellow ?
(Just run ldapseach as dirctory manger with criteria/filters/basedn you want. )

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Grzegorz Dwornicki <gd1100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes i told you how in ealier mail.
>
> Just run ldapseach as dirctory manger with criteria/filters/basedn you want.
> Next pipe or copy results to file. Maybe use sed on the file to make litle
> changes of needed. Copy it to second server and use ldapadd on it.
>
> Greg.
>
> Send from z htc desire z
>
> 08-08-2012 14:25, "Fosiul Alam" <fosiul at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
>> Hi
>> Is there any way to make ldif from production server
>> then  run this on this test server??
>>
>> Fosiul
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Grzegorz Dwornicki <gd1100 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I'm not sure about your second server, does it need to have same base
>> > tree.
>> > I think yes it needs. Because admin console and shell 389 backup tools
>> > make
>> > copy of database files not in ldif format. If your second server have
>> > diferent tree you can use sed + ldapsearch to extract data.
>> >
>> > Consider also this: The best way to sync two or more ldap servers is
>> > replication.
>> >
>> > Greg.
>> >
>> > wiadomosc wyslana z htc desire z
>> >
>> > 08-08-2012 13:41, "Fosiul Alam" <fosiul at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>> >>
>> >> Hi
>> >> I have a running Fedora 389 Server
>> >>
>> >> I want to create a test server but i want to have the same data from
>> >> My production server
>> >>
>> >> So i am thinking
>> >> if i take a backup of production server
>> >>
>> >> then create a a new 389 instances then restore from that backup in to
>> >> new 389 instance
>> >> will it work ??
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for your help.
>> >>
>> >> Fosiul
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