Restoring The Dse.ldif Configuration File; Enabling And Disabling Read-Only Mode; Enabling Read-Only Mode - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

For information on managing replication, see "Managing Replication," on
page 285.

Restoring the dse.ldif Configuration File

To restore the
outlined in "Restoring a Single Database," on page 159 to copy the backup copy of
the
dse.ldif
server.
The directory creates two backup copies of the
serverRoot/slapd-serverID/config
The
dse.ldif.startOK
The
dse.ldif

Enabling and Disabling Read-Only Mode

Before performing certain operations of export or backup on your Directory
Server, you can enable read-only mode on any of the databases to ensure you
have a faithful image of the state of these databases at a given time.
The Directory Server Console and the command-line utilities do not
automatically put the directory in read-only mode before export or backup
operations because this would make your directory unavailable for updates.
However, if you have a multi-master configuration, this might not be a problem
for you.

Enabling Read-Only Mode

In the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab, and expand the
1.
Data folder in the navigation tree.
Select the database that you want to place in read-only mode, and click the
2.
Database Settings tab in the right pane.
Select the "Database is Read-Only" checkbox.
3.
configuration file, stop the server, then use the procedure
dse.ldif
file into your directory. Once you have copied the data, restart your
file records a copy of the
file contains a backup of the most recent changes to the
dse.ldif.bak
file. Copy the file with the most recent changes to your directory.
Enabling and Disabling Read-Only Mode
file in this directory:
dse.ldif
file at server start up.
dse.ldif
Chapter 4 Populating Directory Databases 161