1 .TH LDBMCAT 8C "13 November 1995" "U-M LDAP LDVERSION"
3 ldbmcat \- LDBM to LDIF database format conversion utility
5 .B ETCDIR/ldbmcat [\-n] id2entry\-file
9 This program is used to convert a
11 LDBM database to the text LDAP Directory Interchange Format (LDIF).
14 and writes the corresponding LDIF output to standard output.
16 See "The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide" for more details on
21 This option specifies that
23 should not print entry IDs when it dumps out the database. Note
24 that the printing of entry IDs is essential if you are going to
25 use the LDIF format produced as input to
27 for example, to create a new index file for use with an existing
30 To make a text backup of your LDBM database and put it in a file called
36 ETCDIR/ldbmcat -n id2entry.dbb > ldif
40 To create a new index for the
42 attribute, give these commands:
46 ETCDIR/ldbmcat id2entry.dbb > ldif
47 ETCDIR/ldif2index -i ldif -f slapd-config-file mail
53 should not be running (at least, not in read-write
54 mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the database.
61 "The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide"