Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.0 Installation Manual page 73

• If you are upgrading from Directory Server 5.0, all of the configuration files in
/usr/netscape/servers/slapd-serverID/config
directory named
• If your configuration files are stored in non-default locations, before you
migrate your server, copy them to a safe place.
Once you have backed up your critical configuration information, do the following
to migrate a server to 6.0:
Stop your legacy Directory Server.
1.
NOTE
On the machine where your legacy Directory Server is installed, install a new
2.
6.0 Directory Server.
The installation process is described in Chapter 3, "Using Express and Typical
Installation," or Chapter 4, "Silent Installation."
Use the same port numbers as your legacy production server if you want to
ensure that any directory clients that have static configuration information
(including directory server port numbers) will continue to work.
Run the migration script. As root user (UNIX), or administrator (on NT),
3.
change directory to
enter the following command:
On UNIX:
migrateInstance5 -D rootDN -w passwd -p port -o oldServerPath -n newServerPath
ON NT:
perl migrateInstance5 -D rootDN -w passwd -p port -o oldServerPath -n newServerPath
where:
/usr/netscape/servers/slapd-serverID/config_backup
If you do not stop the legacy Directory Server, the migration script
does it for you.
/usr/netscape/servers/bin/slapd/admin/bin
rootDN is the DN for Directory Manager in Directory Server 6.0
passwd is the password for Directory Manager in Directory Server 6.0
port is the LDAP port number in Directory Server 6.0
oldServerPath is the path to the legacy Directory Server directory (for
example,
/usr/netscape/server4/slapd-serverID
will be backed up to a
)
Chapter 6 Migrating From Previous Versions
Migration Procedure
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. Then
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