On 5/14/2014 7:19 PM, Michael Gettes wrote:
Thank you so much for the 3 replies. They are VERY illuminating and helpful for me to now press ahead and better address my own particular needs based on our “requirements”. What I now intend to do is to perform, at regular intervals, db2bak to a specific directory. as i would like to convert the bak db to ldif, it doesn’t appear there is a relatively easy way to do this… either i’d have to mockup a new config dir to reference the bak db as the real db so db2ldif will work or i would have to create a new slapd instance and then configure it for schema and such to be identical to the real instance on the server and then db2bak with the output being the bak instance so i can run db2ldif on on the bak db.
Hmm...the backup files are meaningless gibberish so anything other than
a Directory Server, so for sure you need to restore the backup set into
a DS of some sort in order to dump it to ldif. That could be a
stand-alone server used only for this purpose, or I think you could do
it in a separate back end in a server that performs other duties. I'd
use a separate server since it is so easy to spin one up. You don't need
to configure schema to get it to dump ldif. I don't even think you need
to turn schema checking off. Database restore, and ldif dump are done at
a very low level. There may be some checks done to pre-flight the backup
restore. Try it and see if anything throws an error is probably the
quickest way to find out..
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