Re: Migration Assistance

Hi Keith,

Yes, I am able to load the dumped ldif into a clean ldap tree on the  
new host and authenticate users against that.

Thanks,
Yash

On Aug 16, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Keith T. Garner wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:19:48, Yash L. Khemani said:
>
>> So my question is -- how do I successfully migrate my ldap tree?  I
>> guess I could dump to ldif on the old host and load on the new one,
>> but is there a way for me to just copy the ldap files?
>>
>
> The ldap servers are probably compiled against different versions of
> gdbm and/or db and aren't compatible in how the files are laid out.
> The safest thing is to do an ldapsearch to dump out an ldif and then
> do an ldapadd on the new server.
>
> I've actually been doing such a migration myself.  Although, I'm
> moving existing domains from a server to another server that's already
> set up with jamm hosting stuff.
>
> Keith



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