the tools project is quite old(broken) and not maintained at the moment if you want to take a dump would suggest to use Studio's export feature
HTH On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Steve Hayden <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am attempting to use the "dump" utility contained in the > "apacheds-tools.jar"and am having some > difficulties. I am attempting this on a Windows 7 environment (and will also > need to do it on Linux). > I have tried this with the 1.5.5 and 1.5.7 versions of ApacheDS, and "dump" > does not seems to work on > either. I have the "apacheds-tools.jar" in the folder: > > "C:\Software_Downloads\ApacheDS\apacheds_1.5.7\bin" > > and am using using the command: > > java -jar apacheds-tools.jar dump -p system -i C:\app\data\ldap > > > (the "schema" and "system" files that ApacheDS creates are in that "ldap" > folder). Executing the command > above results in the following exception: > > ***************** Begin of output/exceptions ************* > _ _ ____ ____ _____ _ > / \ _ __ __ _ ___| |__ ___| _ \/ ___| |_ _|__ ___ | |___ > / _ \ | '_ \ / _` |/ __| '_ \ / _ \ | | \___ \ | |/ _ \ / _ \| / __| > / ___ \| |_) | (_| | (__| | | | __/ |_| |___) | | | (_) | (_) | \__ \ > /_/ \_\ .__/ \__,_|\___|_| |_|\___|____/|____/ |_|\___/ \___/|_|___/ > |_| > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: > C:\ofm\data\ldap\bin does not exist! > at > org.apache.directory.daemon.InstallationLayout.verifyInstallation(InstallationLayout.java:294) > at > org.apache.directory.server.tools.DumpCommand.execute(DumpCommand.java:156) > at > org.apache.directory.server.tools.ApachedsTools.main(ApachedsTools.java:112) > > ******************* End of output/exceptions ************* > > As there does not appear to be a "bin" folder created by the ApacheDS startup > (or upon creation of a > new LDAP), it seems that the tool (given the ouput above) is expecting that > folder to exist. > > Is there something I'm doing wrong? > > Any insight/clue would be appreciated. > > Kindest regards/thanks, > Steve > -- Kiran Ayyagari
