Creating And Maintaining Databases; Creating Databases - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Creating and Maintaining Databases

Click OK to delete the suffix.
5.
A progress dialog box is displayed that tells you the steps being completed by
the Console.
Creating and Maintaining Databases
After you create suffixes for organizing your directory data, you create databases
to contain your directory data. Databases are used to store your directory data.
This section contains information about creating databases to contain your
directory data, deleting databases, using database encryption, and making
databases temporarily read-only.
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Creating Databases

• Maintaining Directory Databases
• Database Encryption
Creating Databases
Directory Server supports the use of multiple databases over which you can
distribute your directory tree. There are two ways you can distribute your data
across multiple databases:
• One database per suffix.
The data for each suffix is contained in a separate database. For example, your
directory tree appears as follows:
You add three databases to store the data contained in your separate suffixes,
as follows:
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