Creating Databases - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Creating and Maintaining Databases
This section contains information about creating databases to contain your
directory data, deleting databases, and making databases temporarily read-only.

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:
This division of the tree corresponds to three databases as follows:
90 Netscape Directory Server Administrator's Guide • August 2002