Kambiz Aghaiepour wrote: > Currently running ipa-server-1.2.1-4 with fedora-ds-base-1.1.3-6. I > attempted to upgrade to 389-ds-base-1.2.6.1-2 (and supporting packages) > and the procedure took an extremely long time (at least 2 hours). There > appears to be an upgrade script that runs as part of %posttrans which runs: > > /usr/sbin/setup-ds.pl -l /dev/null -u -s General.UpdateMode=offline > > /dev/null 2>&1 > > I don't have the error logs unfortunately, as when I reverted the ESX > VM, I forgot to save off the log files, but what I recall was that there > were messages indicating that there were multiple passes (each took > about 4-5 minutes) and each time the rate of update dropped below a > certain amount, the update would move on to the next "pass". There were > about 25 passes through before the upgrade completed. Mind you, this > installation is rather small IMO, as there are only 130-ish entries > under cn=users,cn=accounts. The other thing that I noticed after the > upgrade procedure was that not all the users were defined in the > directory (most appeared to be there, but some critical users were > missing). Suffices to say that many of our processes were broken after > the upgrade and 4 hours into the planned upgrade, I ended up backing > out. (This same upgrade had been tested on a smaller directory and the > upgrade seemed to go without incident). > > I'm wondering if there might be an easier way for me to go about > upgrading the installation. For example, could I, instead of going > through the "upgrade", instead, re-install a replacement 389-ds based > ipa-server host, create a new winsync agreement with my AD environment, > and then export the password data for the users in DS from the current > fedora-ds-base-1.1.3 and import it into the directory running > 389-ds-base ? If this is do-able, what all do I need to copy from the > fedora-ds-base host to the 389-ds-base host? >
What is your final goal and why are you trying to do the upgrade of the DS under IPA? > Thanks > Kambiz > > > -- Thank you, Dmitri Pal Engineering Manager IPA project, Red Hat Inc. ------------------------------- Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
