Backup LDAP entries with ldapsearch
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I have a LDAP instance running the OpenBSD’s ldapd. I installed the
openldap-client package so that I get ldapsearch, but there doesn’t seem to
be any slapcat-like tool ; which may be used to backup the LDAP content in
LDIF format.
Here’s a trick to dump the ldapd content using ldapsearch:
# ldapsearch -x -H ldaps://ldap.tumfatig.net -D "cn=admin,dc=tumfatig,dc=net" -W -b "dc=tumfatig,dc=net" -LLL > ldapd-"`date +%Y%m%d`".ldif
This generates a file in LDIF format which can be used by ldapadd to fill
another LDAP instance.
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