Hi Rich, Thanks for replying.
Just making sure I'm using the right utility. To reinitialize the directory, I use the ldif2db.pl Perl script right? - David On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Rich Megginson <rmegg...@redhat.com> wrote: > Chun Tat David Chu wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am hitting an issue with reinitializing the directory database. > > > > Basically I have two directory servers and they're configured using > > multi-master replication scheme. > > > > When I reinitialize the directory database, the directory became > > inaccessible. I think it is related with my multi-master replication > > setup because when I use only reinitialize one LDAP, it would work > > just fine > > > > My question is if multi-master replication is enabled on two LDAPs > > then do I need to reinitialize both LDAPs at the same time or just one > > LDAP? > If you use one master (m1) to re-init the other master (m2), you do not > need to then use m2 to re-init m2. > > > > Thanks! > > > > - David > > > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Chun Tat David Chu > > <beyonddc.stor...@gmail.com <mailto:beyonddc.stor...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Reinitializing the directory database does the trick! I'm going > > to do more testing on it. > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > - David > > > > > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, David Boreham > > <david_l...@boreham.org <mailto:david_l...@boreham.org>> wrote: > > > > On 5/14/2010 11:40 AM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote: > > > > > > We use 389 Directory as part of our development lab. Every > > time when > > > we do a new test, we need to repopulate our 389 directory to > > a clean > > > slate (i.e. delete all existing data and re-create a base > > hierarchy > > > tree). > > > > > > Our current way of doing so is simply using the ldapdelete > > command to > > > remove all existing data and use ldapadd to re-create the base > > > hierarchy tree. This approach is okay but sometime it could > > take up > > > to 20 to 30 minutes to delete all existing data depending on > the > > > amount of data saved in the directory. > > > > > > Is there a more efficient way to repopulate the 389 Directory? > > > > Yes. Import an almost empty LDIF file. You can also copy the > > on-disk > > database underneath a server (when it is shut down), if you > > know what > > you're doing. > > > > -- > > 389 users mailing list > > 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > <mailto:389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > 389 users mailing list > > 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users > > -- > 389 users mailing list > 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users >
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