[Fedora-directory-users] Migration from i-planet 52

[Noriko Hosoi]

Richard Megginson wrote:

> Eddie C wrote:
>
>> I recently did an ldif backup of our iplanet 52 database. Its about 
>> an 88 MB ldif file.
>> I took this to a new FDS server Dell 850 3 ghz duel core 2 sata hard 
>> disks.
>> I ran an ldapadd  the data imported perfectly.
>
Are there any reason to use ldapadd instead of ldif2db?  ldif2db should 
be much faster...

>> Then I tried to cutover some systems and give the database some load.
>>  
>> System went 200% processor
>>  
>> Eventually I realized I was missing indexes so I added them through 
>> the graphical tool.
>>  
>> The log seemed to do something like this
>> generating index 1%
>> generating index 2%
>> ....
>> generating index 49%
>> Done
>> Seemed weird that they would jump from 49% to Done
>> At this point the new system was running at 100% processor
>> But the queries are running faster on our old 440 MHZ sparc t1 
>> server52 database
>>  
>> I ran
>> DB ERROR: db_verify: Page 30: out-of-order key at entry 498
>> DB ERROR: db_verify: DB->verify: db/o_com/channelcontentowner.db4: 
>> DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed
>>  
>> then I tried db2_index. The program seemed to be in a tight loop 
>> complaining about 1 missing entry.
>>  
>> I do not realize how the data can be so corrupted right after an import.
>>  
>> These are someone generic symptoms. Any ideas? Thanks
>
> Try creating all of the required indexes first, then doing the import 
> of your original LDIF.  Not only will the import+index creation be 
> much faster (than doing the import then creating the indexes one at a 
> time), but I think your database corruption problems will vanish.
>
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