Hi Howard! > Exactly the same way as you slapcat'd it.
I don't actually understand ... ?? > What was the exact command line you used for slapcat? slapcat -b 'cn=config' (IIRC) Regards, Torsten On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:50:34 -0700, Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > Torsten Schlabach (Tascel eG) wrote: >> Dear list! >> >> If I have an LDIF backup of a cn=config database, taken with slapcat, how >> would I use it to bootstrap a new server, for example, in a desaster >> recovery setting? >> >> I tried it and slapadd required a configuration, but cn=config *is* the >> configuration and I am trying to restore it. So this is a bit of a >> chicken >> and egg problem, isn't it? > > It looked that way, when we started designing this 4 years ago. But yes, > we > have a solution. > >> Is there an "official" way of doing that? > > Exactly the same way as you slapcat'd it. What was the exact command line > you > used for slapcat? > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
