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From: John Cheng <johnlicheng@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:59:12 -0800
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Subject: Re: Backing up ApacheDS
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Kiran Ayyagari <kayyagari@apache.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:52 AM, John Cheng <johnlicheng@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Apologize for the newbie question. But, I have small instance of ApcheDS
> >> > running and I would like to make sure my data gets backed up. Is this as
> >> > simple as just copying the partitions folder or???
> >> The best would be to run a cron task (on linux) to get all the entries
> >> extracted as LDIF, say, every hour. This is a guaranteed way to get
> >> your data straight.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Emmanuel,
> >
> > Is the apacheds-tools.jar capable of doing backup/restores? A search on
> > the archives seem to indicate that it is broken and one should use
> > OpenLdap tools to perform backup/restore via the command line
> >
> > http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/DCLZ8EQq6MXcLPfXYRB3
> >
> > Trying the command
> >
> > java -jar apacheds-tools.jar dump -i /path/to/apacheds -p system
> >
> > Yielded java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> > org.apache.directory.daemon.InstallationLayout
> >
> the best is to export all the data into a LDIF file and use as backup.
> yes the server-tools is broken and is not supported at the moment
>
> > On a subject that relates to backups, is replication not working in
> > ApacheDS 1.5.7?
> no, it is not working in 1.5.7 but the trunk has support for
> master/slave replication (rfc4533 a.k.a syncrepl)
> may be you can consider upgrading your server to the latest in a dev
> environment and see
>
> --
> Kiran Ayyagari

I am looking into using ApacheDS as a production LDAP server and I am
trying to find an export tool that is both Java-based and can be
scripted. Is there a pure Java export tool?

ApacheDS Studio is Java but is a GUI.

OpenDS is Java but only works with OpenDS from what I can gather.

OpenLDAP's "ldapsearch" is a command line tool, but is not based on
Java.

So my only option is OpenLDAP tools, I would like to avoid that
dependency if possible.

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John L Cheng