Chapter 4 Populating Directory Databases; Importing Data - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Databases contain the directory data managed by your Red Hat Directory Server
(Directory Server). This chapter describes the following procedures for populating
your directory databases:
• Importing Data (page 149)
• Exporting Data (page 156)
• Backing Up and Restoring Data (page 159)
• Enabling and Disabling Read-Only Mode (page 166)

Importing Data

Directory Server provides three methods for importing data:
• Import from the Directory Server Console — You can use the Directory Server
Console to append data to all of your databases, including database links.
• Initialize databases — You can use the Directory Server Console to import data
to one database. This method overwrites any data contained by the database.
• Importing data from the command-line — You can import data using the
command-line utilities.
NOTE
Table 4-1 describes the differences between an import and initializing databases.
Populating Directory Databases
The LDIF files you use for import operations must use UTF-8
characterset encoding. Import operations do not convert data from
local characterset encoding to UTF-8 characterset encoding.
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