On 12/3/2012 9:44 πμ, Gaurav Gugnani wrote:
I made my system running on dynamic LDAP like from past 2 months and
in this span of time i implemented several changes. Now, suppose today
i plan to again move back to use static configuration - Will i able to
save all my changes what i did in all this time? OR All changes made
are lost?
If Lost - Is there any way to retrieve the changes which i made?
According to:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201110/msg00212.html:
"As far as the OpenLDAP Project is concerned, conversion from slapd.conf
to slapd.d is a one-way trip. Migrate everything else forward."
For backing up you dynamic config: You can slapcat the config database
(slapcat -n 0 -l config_current.ldif), keep it like that or change
whatever and slapadd it back while the server is offline (slapadd -F
/etc/ldap/slapd.d -n 0 -l config.ldif). You could also manually convert
it to a slapd.conf (it should not be that difficult), although this is
not encouraged. You may also want to read:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201110/msg00212.html,
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201110/msg00251.html etc.
Since OpenLDAP is progressively moving away from slapd.conf, admins
should progressively adapt to dynamic config. Nevertheless,
experimentation is not prohibited!
Changes are never lost. Just backup/store/handle your config(s)
appropriately.
Best regards,
Nick
