Unfortunately I only have the db2bak from the day I need to restore. No ldif files. And I need to restore them to a new server. I do not need all the configuration data. I only need two of our data trees. On 4/9/07, Oscar A. Valdez <oscar.valdez at duraflex.com.sv> wrote: > > El lun, 09-04-2007 a las 14:22 -0400, Eddie C escribi?: > > Every night I run a db2bak. > > Can this backup be safely restored to a different server? using > > bak2db? > > It won't. > > I had to do a restore by necessity, and here's what I had to do (by > Noriko Hosoi's gracious recommendation): > > 1. on the current directory server, export the data into ldif files. > go to your <server_root>/slapd-<id>; run "db2ldif -n <backend>" for each > backend (e.g., userRoot) EXCEPT NetscapeRoot > 2. install new FDS > 3. go to the <new_server_root>/slapd-<id> > 4. stop the directory server > 5. import the ldif files from the current directory server > repeat "ldif2db -n <backend> -i <server_root>/slapd-<id>/<date_time>.ldif" > for each <date_time>.ldif file exported in (1). > 6. start the directory server > > The issue is documented in this thread: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-users/2007-February/msg00024.html > > > The NetscapeRoot instance is server-specific, and it won't restore > properly on a new server. > -- > Oscar A. Valdez > > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20070409/34b60359/attachment.html
