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

[Fosiul Alam]

Hi thanks
but thats not giving me result of all the groups this user belong to ??

will really appropriate your help.
Fosiul.


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Grzegorz Dwornicki <gd1100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ldapsearch -x '(memberuid=jsmith)'
>
> This will not return user primary group.
>
> Greg.
>
> Send from htc desire z
>
> 08-08-2012 15:27, "Fosiul Alam" <fosiul at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
>> Hi thanks
>>
>> Just  a quick qustion
>> is there any ldapcommand which will give me a list of groups a user belong
>> to ??
>>
>> Supppose I want to see all the groups list a user call jonh smith belong
>> to ??
>> thanks
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Michael R. Gettes <gettes at pobox.com>
>> wrote:
>> > to get a backup of just the data - the simplest thing to do is to use
>> > db2ldif (documented well in the various versions).  you can use the GUI
>> > to
>> > do an export which uses db2ldif under the covers.  db2ldif has various
>> > capabilities to include and exclude portions of the tree.  ldif2db is to
>> > import.  also well documented.  i do this all the time.  it's really
>> > easy.
>> >
>> > /mrg
>> >
>> > On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:01, Grzegorz Dwornicki wrote:
>> >
>> > You can run this in many ways for example:
>> >
>> > Ldapsearch -D "cn=Directory Manager" -W -b
>> > ou=Users,l=uk,dc=fosiul,dc=lan
>> > Ldapsearch -D "cn=Directory Manager" -W -b
>> > ou=Groups,l=uk,dc=fosiul,dc=lan
>> >
>> > This way you get 2 results in ldif format. But you can try something
>> > like
>> > this:
>> >
>> > Ldapsearch -D "cn=Directory Manager" -W -b l=uk,dc=fosiul,dc=lan
>> > '(I(objectclass=person)(ou=Groups)(ou=Users)(objectclass=posixgroup))'
>> >
>> > I used "I" in ldapfilter because could not find pipe character on my
>> > phone
>> > please use pipe character known from bash instead. Sorry for trouble.
>> >
>> > This command should give the same result as ones provided ealier, but in
>> > one
>> > query. I am asking for all ldap content and filter it aginst persons,
>> > posixgroups and users/groups containers.
>> >
>> > What i ment is you can do this task in many ways :)
>> >
>> > Greg.
>> >
>> > Send from z htc desire z
>> >
>> > 08-08-2012 14:35, "Fosiul Alam" <fosiul at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>> >>
>> >> Hi thanks
>> >>
>> >> my ldap is like this
>> >>
>> >> l=uk,dc=fosiul,dc=lan
>> >>
>> >> then it has OU=Users
>> >> OU=Grups
>> >>
>> >> what shall be the command  for bellow ?
>> >> (Just run ldapseach as dirctory manger with criteria/filters/basedn you
>> >> want. )
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Grzegorz Dwornicki <gd1100 at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Yes i told you how in ealier mail.
>> >> >
>> >> > Just run ldapseach as dirctory manger with criteria/filters/basedn
>> >> > you
>> >> > want.
>> >> > Next pipe or copy results to file. Maybe use sed on the file to make
>> >> > litle
>> >> > changes of needed. Copy it to second server and use ldapadd on it.
>> >> >
>> >> > Greg.
>> >> >
>> >> > Send from z htc desire z
>> >> >
>> >> > 08-08-2012 14:25, "Fosiul Alam" <fosiul at gmail.com> napisał(a):
>> >> >
>> >> >> 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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