[389-users] Re: Preserving create & modifyTimestamp during import

> On 13 Apr 2021, at 23:38, Jan Tomasek <jan@tomasek.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to import sub-suffix into the existing suffix on a running server. When I use:
>
> dsconf -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w "$pswd" ldap://localhost backend import userRoot sub-suffix.ldif
>
> than userRoot is truncated and later import fails with error:
>
> [13/Apr/2021:15:08:41.180921374 +0200] - WARN - import_foreman - import userRoot: Skipping entry "o=sub,o=suffix" which has no parent, ending at line 36 of file "/root/sub-suffix.ldif"
>
> One way is to dump existing userRoot and later re-import complete backend:
>
> dsconf -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w "$pswd" ldap://localhost backend import userRoot suffix.ldif sub-suffix.ldif
>
> But that means downtime I'm trying to avoid.

Without code changes, I think this is going to involve downtime.

A possible way to handle this is if you have multiple replicas, you can do the import on a single replica offline, join it to the topology, and the re-init the data over your other machines.

Sorry :(

>
> Other import way is use ldapadd but that means that server replaces operational attributes:
> creatorsName
> modifiersName
> createTimestamp
> modifyTimestamp
>
> Is there a way how to import sub-suffix into existing and running server and preserve those operational attributes at the same time?
>
> Thanks
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Sincerely,

William Brown

Senior Software Engineer, 389 Directory Server
SUSE Labs, Australia
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