The --oldsrootoption can also specify a local directory on the target machine that was created from a tarball. In that case, create a tarball of your old server root directory, and untar it on the target machine. In this example, a tarball was created of /var/opt/netscape/server7 on the source machine, and it was untarred under /migration on the target machine:

#/opt/dirsrv/sbin/migrate-ds-admin.pl --oldsroot /migration/server7 \

--actualroot /var/opt/netscape/server7\ General.ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd=password

The migrate-ds-admincommand automatically migrates every Directory Server instance configured. As with migrating Directory Server on the same machine, using the --instanceoption allows you to set the specific instance to migrate. For example, this command migrated a Directory Server instance named example:

#/opt/dirsrv/sbin/migrate-ds-admin.pl \

--oldsroot /net/server2/migration/server7 \

--actualroot /var/opt/netscape/server7 --instance example \ General.ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd=password

The procedure follows:

1.Stop all Directory Server instances and the Administration Server.

2.Back up all the Directory Server user and configuration data.

3.Install the Directory Server 8.1 package on the new machine that will host Directory Server.

4.Make the old Directory Server accessible to the new machine, either through an NFS-mounted drive or tarball.

5.Run the migration script as root. Specify the current physical location of the Directory Server with the --oldsrootoption and the location on the old machine with the actualsroot option.

IMPORTANT:

Do not set up the new Directory Server instances with setup-ds-admin.plbefore running the migration script.

For example:

#/opt/dirsrv/sbin/migrate-ds-admin.pl \

--oldsroot /net/server2/migration/server7 \ --actualsroot /var/opt/netscape/server7 \ General.ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd=password

The migration process starts. The legacy Directory Server is migrated, and a new Directory Server

8.1instance is installed using the configuration information from the legacy Directory Server.

6.1.3.4Migrating a Directory Server from one platform to another

To migrate a Directory Server installation from one platform to another is similar to migrating from one machine to another. The difference between a migration between platforms and other migration scenarios is the information migrated from the old Directory Server. The databases are in an architecture-dependent binary format and can be migrated only after they are exported to LDIF. Other data, such as the changelog, is not migrated. As explained in “Migrating a Directory Server from one machine to another” (page 51), the migration script uses the --actualsrootand --oldsrootoptions to migrate across machines and the cross option to signal that the migration is across-platforms.

The command format to move from one platform to another is similar to the following:

#/opt/dirsrv/sbin/migrate-ds-admin.pl --cross \ --oldsroot /net/server2/migration/server7 \ --actualroot /var/opt/netscape/server7 \ General.ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd=password

The migrate-ds-admincommand automatically migrates every Directory Server instance configured. As with migrating Directory Server on the same machine, using the --instance

52 Migrating or upgrading to HP-UX Directory Server from Netscape or Red Hat Directory Server