Options
Table A.2. ldif2db Opt ions
Option Description
-d debugLevel Specifies the debug level to use during runtime.
For further information, refer to Section 2.3.1.44,
“nsslapd-errorlog-level (Error Log Level)”.
-D configDir Specifies the location of the server configuration
directory that contains the configuration
information for the import process. T his must be
the full path to the configuration directory,
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance_name.
-E Decrypts an encrypted database during export.
This option is used only if database encryption is
enabled.
-g string Generates a unique ID. Type none for no unique
ID to be generated and determ inistic for the
generated unique ID to be name-based. By
default, a time-based unique ID is generated.
When using the determ inistic generation to
have a name-based unique ID, it is also possible
to specify the namespace for the server to use,
as follows:
-g deterministic namespaceId
namespaceId is a string of characters in the
format 00-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-
xxxxxxxx.
Use this option to import the same LDIF file into
two different Directory Servers and the contents
of both directories should have the same set of
unique IDs. If unique IDs already exist in the LDIF
file being imported, then the existing IDs are
imported to the server, regardless of the options
specified.
-i ldifFile Specifies the LDIF file to be imported. T his option
is required. T here can be multiple -i arguments
to import more than one LDIF file at a time. When
importing multiple files, the server imports the
LDIF files in the order they are specified on the
command line.
-n backendInstance Specifies the name of the backend to be imported.
-O Specifies that no attribute indexes are created for
the imported database. If this option is specified
and the indexes need to be restored later, the
indexes have to be recreated by hand. See the
Directory Server Administrator's Guide for further
information.
-s includeSuffix Specifies the suffix or suffixes within the LDIF file
to import.
-x excludeSuffix Specifies suffixes within the LDIF file to exclude
during the import. T here can be multiple -x
arguments. This option can selectively import
portions of the LDIF file. If both -x and -s are
used with the same suffix, -x takes precedence.
Exclusion always takes precedence over
inclusion. If -x or -s are not specified, then all
available suffixes will be imported from the LDIF
file. To import the LDIF file into the configuration
directory, do not exclude o=NetscapeRoot.
A.5. Utilities for Restoring and Backing up Databases: archive2db
Restores database from the archives.
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