[389-users] Migrating a Directory Server from 389-ds to FreeIPA

[Juan Asensio Sánchez]

2009/9/24 Michael Kang <wxiluo at gmail.com>:
> Dear Fedora Directory community,
>
> I'm help my PL migrating Fedora directory server(storing employees info and
> Linux user accounts) from 389-ds(1.1.x) to FreeIPA(1.2.2). I backed up from
> the command line using the db2bak command-line script. I got two LDIF files
> and two folders(userRoot and NetscapeRoot) which contains many db4 files.
>
> After reading the FreeIPA Administrator Guide, I realized there is no db2bak
> or bak2db commands for FreeIPA users. So I copy those LDIF files and folders
> to /var/lib/dirsrv/<ds instance> directly. Then I run service dirsvr
> restart, the dirsvr instance cannot start anymore. The instance names of
> 389-ds and FreeIPA are different.
>
> So I want to learn more about 389-ds server. I run yum install 389-ds in
> Fedora 9 i386. I got message: No package 389-ds available. My system is
> already updated. What's the new name of the 389-ds package?
>

Have you added the 389 repositories?

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Download


> How can I finish this hard job? Have anybody ever migrated successfully? I
> need your help..
>
> Best Regards,
> Michael
>
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