Migrating A Standalone Server - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 Installation Manual

Migration Procedure

Migrating a Standalone Server

Once you have backed up your critical configuration information, do the following
to migrate a server:
Stop your legacy Directory Server.
1.
If you do not stop the legacy Directory Server, the migration script does it for
you.
On the machine where your legacy Directory Server is installed, install a new,
2.
6.x 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.
3.
As root user (on UNIX) or administrator (on Windows), change directory to
serverRoot/bin/slapd/admin/bin
On UNIX:
migrateInstance6 -D rootDN -w password -p port -o oldInstancePath -n
newInstancePath
On Windows:
perl migrateInstance6 -D rootDN -w password -p port -o oldInstancePath -n
newInstancePath
where:
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rootDN is the Directory Server 6.x user DN with root permissions, such as
.
Directory Manager
password is the password for
port is the LDAP port number assigned to Directory Server 6.x.
oldInstancePath is the path to the installation directory of the legacy
Directory Server (for example,
. Then enter the following command:
Directory Manager
/usr/netscape/server4/slapd-serverID
in Directory Server 6.x.
).