Thanks Rich, I'll give that a try.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins@redhat.com> wrote:
Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> Just making sure I'm using the right utility.  To reinitialize the
> directory, I use the ldif2db.pl <http://ldif2db.pl> Perl script right?
Yes, if you need to restore _all_ servers from an LDIF backup.  The
reason I say _all_ is that when you do a restore from a "raw" LDIF file,
this wipes out all of the replication state information and changelog
information.  This means you will have to use this server to re-init
other masters and consumers - (I mean re-init in the sense of
Initializing Consumers -
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/Managing_Replication-Initializing_Consumers.html)

You can use db2ldif.pl -r to create an LDIF file suitable for offline
replica init
>
> - David
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins@redhat.com
> <mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I am hitting an issue with reinitializing the directory database.
>     >
>     > Basically I have two directory servers and they're configured using
>     > multi-master replication scheme.
>     >
>     > When I reinitialize the directory database, the directory became
>     > inaccessible.  I think it is related with my multi-master
>     replication
>     > setup because when I use only reinitialize one LDAP, it would work
>     > just fine
>     >
>     > My question is if multi-master replication is enabled on two LDAPs
>     > then do I need to reinitialize both LDAPs at the same time or
>     just one
>     > LDAP?
>     If you use one master (m1) to re-init the other master (m2), you
>     do not
>     need to then use m2 to re-init m2.
>     >
>     > Thanks!
>     >
>     > - David
>     >
>     > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Chun Tat David Chu
>     > <beyonddc.storage@gmail.com <mailto:beyonddc.storage@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:beyonddc.storage@gmail.com
>     <mailto:beyonddc.storage@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Reinitializing the directory database does the trick!  I'm going
>     >     to do more testing on it.
>     >
>     >     Thanks a lot!
>     >
>     >     - David
>     >
>     >
>     >     On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, David Boreham
>     >     <david_list@boreham.org <mailto:david_list@boreham.org>
>     <mailto:david_list@boreham.org <mailto:david_list@boreham.org>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >         On 5/14/2010 11:40 AM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
>     >         >
>     >         > We use 389 Directory as part of our development lab.
>      Every
>     >         time when
>     >         > we do a new test, we need to repopulate our 389
>     directory to
>     >         a clean
>     >         > slate (i.e. delete all existing data and re-create a base
>     >         hierarchy
>     >         > tree).
>     >         >
>     >         > Our current way of doing so is simply using the ldapdelete
>     >         command to
>     >         > remove all existing data and use ldapadd to re-create
>     the base
>     >         > hierarchy tree.  This approach is okay but sometime it
>     could
>     >         take up
>     >         > to 20 to 30 minutes to delete all existing data
>     depending on the
>     >         > amount of data saved in the directory.
>     >         >
>     >         > Is there a more efficient way to repopulate the 389
>     Directory?
>     >
>     >         Yes. Import an almost empty LDIF file. You can also copy the
>     >         on-disk
>     >         database underneath a server (when it is shut down), if you
>     >         know what
>     >         you're doing.
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