HP UX Red Hat Direry Server Software manual Importing Data, Import Method Comparison

Chapter 4.

Populating Directory Databases

Databases contain the directory data managed by the Red Hat Directory Server.

1. Importing Data

Directory Server provides three methods for importing data:

•Import from the Directory Server Console. Use the Directory Server Console to append data to all of the databases, including database links.

•Initialize databases. The Directory Server Console can import data to one database; this method overwrites any data contained by the database.

•Importing data from the command-line.Directory Server provides command-line utilities to import data.

NOTE

The LDIF files used for import operations must use UTF-8 character set encoding. Import operations do not convert data from local character set encoding to UTF-8 characterset encoding.

Table 4.1, “Import Method Comparison” describes the differences between an import and initializing databases.

Action	Import	Initialize Database
Overwrites database	No	Yes
LDAP operations	Add, modify, delete	Add only
Performance	More time-consuming	Fast
Partition speciality	Works on all partitions	Local partitions only
Response to server failure	Best effort (all changes made	Atomic (all changes are lost
	up to the point of the failure	after a failure)
	remain)
LDIF file location	Local to Console	Local to Console or local to
		server
Imports configuration	Yes	No
information (cn=config)

Table 4.1. Import Method Comparison

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