[389-users] Directory Re-population

[Chun Tat David Chu]

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 at 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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