This is beyond bad:<br>Here is what I did now:<br><br>I copied my backup dir into: <br><pre class="Preformatted"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
serverRoot</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;">/slapd-</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
serverID</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;">/bak/</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
backup_name<br><br></span>So when you click retore button it actually find the name of back and directory <br>and yet it will produce error53 (failed to read the backup file set from....)<br><br>Here is ls -al from /tmp/2007_backup
<br><br>-rwxrwxrwx 1 ldapds ldapds 18 Oct 18 14:17 DBVERSION<br><br>-rwxrwxrwx 1 ldapds ldapds 50218 Oct 18 14:17 dse_index.ldif<br>-rwxrwxrwx 1 ldapds ldapds 1211 Oct 18 14:17 dse_instance.ldif
<br>-rwxrwxrwx 1 ldapds ldapds 4070917 Oct 18 14:17 log.0000000749<br><br>drwxrwxrwx 2 ldapds ldapds 4096 Oct 18 14:17 NetscapeRoot<br>drwxrwxrwx 2 ldapds ldapds 4096 Oct 18 14:17 PolicySvr4<br>
drwxrwxrwx 2 ldapds ldapds 4096 Oct 18 14:17 userRoot<br><br>If you specify /tmp/2007_bak as restore dir you get error 53<br>You can specify /tmp/2007_bak/NetscapeRoot....etc all 3 subdir and it will work<br>Yet!!! here is what you get in error log
<br><br>[24/Oct/2007:13:34:45 -0500] - Warning: config backup file dse_instance.ldif not found in backup<br>[24/Oct/2007:13:34:45 -0500] - Warning: config backup file dse_index.ldif not found in back<br><br>No kiiding they are in top level dir.
<br>I wounder if this ever worked?<br><br><br></pre><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Megginson</b> <<a href="mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com">rmeggins@redhat.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Linux Admin wrote:<br>> Thanks Richard and George,<br>> Here is what I have tired:
<br>> I tried restoring from both:<br>> 1. Export/Import from ldif file:<br>> backup all the subtrees and get a lot of rejects on this restore<br>How did you do the import?<br>> 2. Backup/Restore:<br>> Backup creates a directory of my choosing with 2 ldif
<br>> files and 3 subderectories:<br>> userRoot NetscapeRoot and one more subdir for my app<br>> all 3 subdirs have db4 files<br>Can you post an ls -lR of the backup directory?<br>> Restoring: if I specify the top leve back directory (same as I use
<br>> during backup process) I get error 53 (cannot read dir)<br>Check the server error log.<br>> Restore will take 3 subdirectires (netacpre root or userRoot) and will<br>> run OK. but then it stops working, you can not log in or on restart
<br>> admin server would not start.<br>><br>><br>> On 10/24/07, *Richard Megginson* <<a href="mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com">rmeggins@redhat.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com">rmeggins@redhat.com
</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Linux Admin wrote:<br>> > If I want to do through GUI: which option do I use:<br>> Backup/Restore or<br>> > Import/Export<br>> Backup creates a binary backup of your entire database.
<br>> Export creates an LDIF (ASCII) dump of the database you specify<br>> (userRoot or NetscapeRoot).<br>> > When I sued Backup....I tried to restore into vanilla LDAP<br>> specifying<br>> > the top level directory which contains NetascapeRoot and userRoot
<br>> > subdirs, I get error 53 (failed to read the backup file set)<br>> Can you provide more information about what directory you put your<br>> backup in, what directory you told it to restore from, etc.
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On 10/18/07, *Linux Admin* < <a href="mailto:sysadmin.linux@gmail.com">sysadmin.linux@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:sysadmin.linux@gmail.com">sysadmin.linux@gmail.com
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> ><br>> > Please forgive the newbee question here.<br>> > What is the best way to backup/dump--restore/import a fedora<br>> ldap<br>> > server<br>> > (without downtime)
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