Migrating A Standalone Server - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 Installation Manual

Chapter 6. Migrating from Previous Versions
Section 6.3.1 Migrating a Standalone Server
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Section 6.3.2 Migrating a 6.x Replicated Site
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Section 6.3.3 Migrating a 6.x Multi-Master Deployment
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Section 6.3.4 Managing Console Failover.
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6.3.1. Migrating a Standalone Server

Once you have backed up your critical configuration information, do the following to migrate a server:
1. Stop your legacy Directory Server.
If you do not stop the legacy Directory Server, the migration script does it for you.
2. On the machine
install a
described
Chapter 4 Silent Installation and Instance Creation.
Use the same port numbers as your legacy production server if you want to ensure that any direc-
tory clients that have static configuration information (including Directory Server port numbers)
continue to work.
3. Run the migration script.
As root user, change directory to
lowing command:
migrateInstance7 -D rootDN -w password -p port
-o oldInstancePath -n newInstancePath
Where:
rootDN is the Directory Server 7.x user DN with root permissions, such as Directory Man-
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ager.
password is the password for Directory Manager in Directory Server 7.x.
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port is the LDAP port number assigned to Directory Server 7.x.
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oldInstancePath is the path to the installation directory of the legacy Directory Server
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(for example,
newInstancePath is the path to the installation directory of Directory Server 7.x (for
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example,
/opt/redhat-ds/servers/slapd-serverID
The following is an example of a command you would use to migrate an instance of Directory
Server 6.21 to Directory Server 7.1:
migrateInstance7 -D cn=Directory Manager -w secret -p 389 \
-o /opt/redhat-ds/server621/slapd-phonebook \
-n /opt/redhat-ds/servers/slapd-phonebook \
This command appears on one line in usage. The slashes
and should be removed when using the command.
4. Follow the prompts. For example, if you're prompted to provide a path and filename for your
backup directory, enter one or accept the default.
The migration process starts. At the end of migration, your legacy Directory Server is migrated. Ad-
ditionally, as a result of this migration, a new Directory Server 7.x instance is installed using the
configuration information obtained from your legacy Directory Server; the data from your old server
is migrated to the new server; and the new server is started.
A sample output in Example 6-1 shows a migration of Directory Server 6.21 to Directory Server 7.1.
The migration script detects three backends,
where
new 7.x Directory
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in
serverRoot/bin/slapd/admin/bin
/opt/redhat-ds/server6/slapd-serverID
your legacy Directory
Server. This
\
,
backend1 backend2
Server
installation
. Then enter the fol-
).
).
are used to wrap the line for printing,
, and
userRoot
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is installed,
process is
or
, which exist in