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

[Fosiul Alam]

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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