[Fedora-directory-users] Creating backup LDAP server.

[John Oliver]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:40:25PM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote:
> John Oliver wrote:
> >One of the projects on my plate is to have a working backup of an
> >existing fedora-ds server.  I installed fedora-ds under CentOS 5.2 and
> >copied over the files that result from ns-slapd db2archive from the
> >existing server to the new machine.
> >
> >First off, I know nothing about LDAP or fedora-ds in particular :-)
> >
> >After looking at the existing server and what I had after installing on
> >the new server, I decided that running /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl was
> >probably necessary.  I went through, answering the questions as best I
> >could (and figuring that the answers would be overwritten when I
> >restored the backup).  I got this:
> >
> >[08/07/10:10:18:52] - [Setup] Info Are you ready to set up your servers?
> >[08/07/10:10:18:56] - [Setup] Info yes
> >[08/07/10:10:18:56] - [Setup] Info Creating directory server . . .
> >[08/07/10:10:18:59] - [Setup] Info Your new DS instance 'unix-services2'
> >was suc
> >cessfully created.
> >[08/07/10:10:18:59] - [Setup] Info Creating the configuration directory
> >server .
> > . .
> >[08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Error: failed to open an LDAP
> >connection to
> >host 'unix-services2.my.domain.com.com' port '389' as user
> >'cn=Directory Ma
> >nager'.  Error: unknown.
> >[08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Failed to create the configuration
> >directory
> > server
> >[08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Exiting . . .
> >Log file is '/tmp/setupVSpvCl.log
> >
> >
> >Yes, that's two ".com"s  No idea why.
> >  
> Check /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf, and check 
> that against what you typed in as your hostname and what DNS resolves it to.

All are correct.  /etc/hosts has the correct FQDN as well as hostname.
/etc/resolv.conf is pointed to two working DNS servers.  And
/etc/nsswitch.conf has "hosts:      files dns"

Is there a way to tell it to remove the problematic stuff and try to set
up again?

> >So, I stop the dirsrv process and try:
> >
> >[root at localhost ~]# ns-slapd archive2db -D
> >/etc/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2 -a
> >/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/in
> >[10/Jul/2008:11:05:39 -0700] - ERROR: target server has no NetscapeRoot
> >configured
> >[10/Jul/2008:11:05:39 -0700] - archive2db: Failed to read backup file
> >set. Either the directory specified doesn't exist, or it exists but
> >doesn't contain a valid backup set, or file permissions prevent the
> >server reading the backup set.  error=53 (Invalid request descriptor)
> >  
> Don't use ns-slapd archive2db directly - use the scripts in 
> /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance (db2bak, bak2db, etc.) instead.

[root at unix-services2 ~]# /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/bak2db
/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/in/
[10/Jul/2008:14:56:40 -0700] - ERROR: target server has no NetscapeRoot
configured
[10/Jul/2008:14:56:40 -0700] - archive2db: Failed to read backup file
set. Either the directory specified doesn't exist, or it exists but
doesn't contain a valid backup set, or file permissions prevent the
server reading the backup set.  error=53 (Invalid request descriptor)
[root at unix-services2 ~]# ls /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/in/
DBVERSION       dse_instance.ldif  NetscapeRoot
dse_index.ldif  log.0000000076     userRoot

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