Thanks Rich, I'll give that a try. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote: > Chun Tat David Chu wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > > > Thanks for replying. > > > > Just making sure I'm using the right utility. To reinitialize the > > directory, I use the ldif2db.pl <http://ldif2db.pl> Perl script right? > Yes, if you need to restore _all_ servers from an LDIF backup. The > reason I say _all_ is that when you do a restore from a "raw" LDIF file, > this wipes out all of the replication state information and changelog > information. This means you will have to use this server to re-init > other masters and consumers - (I mean re-init in the sense of > Initializing Consumers - > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/Managing_Replication-Initializing_Consumers.html > ) > > You can use db2ldif.pl -r to create an LDIF file suitable for offline > replica init > > > > - David > > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com > > <mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com>> wrote: > > > > Chun Tat David Chu wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am hitting an issue with reinitializing the directory database. > > > > > > Basically I have two directory servers and they're configured using > > > multi-master replication scheme. > > > > > > When I reinitialize the directory database, the directory became > > > inaccessible. I think it is related with my multi-master > > replication > > > setup because when I use only reinitialize one LDAP, it would work > > > just fine > > > > > > My question is if multi-master replication is enabled on two LDAPs > > > then do I need to reinitialize both LDAPs at the same time or > > just one > > > LDAP? > > If you use one master (m1) to re-init the other master (m2), you > > do not > > need to then use m2 to re-init m2. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > - David > > > > > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Chun Tat David Chu > > > <beyonddc.storage at gmail.com <mailto:beyonddc.storage at gmail.com> > > <mailto:beyonddc.storage at gmail.com > > <mailto:beyonddc.storage at gmail.com>>> wrote: > > > > > > 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 <mailto:david_list at boreham.org> > > <mailto:david_list at boreham.org <mailto: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. > > > > > > -- > > > 389 users mailing list > > > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > > <mailto:389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > <mailto:389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > > <mailto:389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org>> > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > -- > > > 389 users mailing list > > > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > > <mailto:389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > > > > -- > > 389 users mailing list > > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > > <mailto:389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > 389 users mailing list > > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > > -- > 389 users mailing list > 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20100618/7d845e18/attachment-0001.html
