Hi Quanah,

You are correct. I misspoke. We ran "bdb" in OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.50 (Aug  6
2020 11:11:46). We switched to "mdb" when we went from 2.4.50 to 2.6.x
version. The upgrade path, as mentioned, was a clean install of 2.6.x and
export of db (slapcat) and import(slapadd).

Regards,
Suresh

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> --On Monday, January 6, 2025 6:47 PM -0500 Suresh Veliveli
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > It was "bdb". For migration, we did a clean install, used "slapcat" to
> > export the db and "slapadd" to import. We used this procedure a
> > number of times in the past when we switched OS, for upgrades etc. Do
> > you have a recommended procedure in mind?
>
> >> We did an upgrade from 2.6.3 to 2.6.7 at the same time, changing the
> >> backend db to "mdb". I think that's when we started to notice that
> >> consumer replication is not recovering. So we upgraded again to 2.6.8 to
> >> now 2.6.9.
>
>
> There was no bdb backend in the 2.6 series.  It was removed after the 2.4
> series, so the upgrade route you describe is not feasible.
>
>
> --Quanah
>
>
>
>

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Georgetown University
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