[389-users] Preserving create & modifyTimestamp during import

[Jan Tomasek]

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.

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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Jan Tomasek aka Semik
http://www.tomasek.cz/
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[William Brown]

Hi,
dsconf -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w "$pswd" ldap://localhost backend import userRoot sub-suffix.ldif
[13/Apr/2021:15:08:41.180921374 +0200] - WARN - import_foreman - import userRoot: Skipping entry "o=sub,o=suffix" which has no parent, ending at line 36 of file "/root/sub-suffix.ldif"
dsconf -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w "$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 :(

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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Jan Tomasek aka Semik
http://www.tomasek.cz/
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Sincerely,

William Brown

Senior Software Engineer, 389 Directory Server
SUSE Labs, Australia
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