[Fedora-directory-users] Migrating Netscape DS to FDS

[Edward Capriolo]

Everyone here hit on the main points. The products are made from the
same code base so usually you only face minor schema changes. If you
directory is small you can usually use the ldapsearch and ldapmodify
command line tools. Some entire corporate directories are less then
4000 entries and export in less then a second. They import in less
then 1 minute.

I suggest exporting the data using an ldapsearch and try to load it on
a fresh system using ldapmodify/add. The tools will stop on a schema
violation and you investigate why that particular object did not load.

What you are facing now is similar to a situation you may face with an
upgrade from mysql 3.0 upgrade to mysql 5.0. It might be hard to find
an upgrade path from vendor documentation, but a plain old
mysqldump/mysqlimport will likely work. As mentioned you may have to
specifically deal with acls, roles, replication agreements- but you
would likely want to add those by hand so you can audit them in the
process.