[Fedora-directory-users] Creating backup LDAP server.

One of the projects on my plate is to have a working backup of an existing fedora-ds server. I installed fedora-ds under CentOS 5.2 and copied over the files that result from ns-slapd db2archive from the existing server to the new machine. First off, I know nothing about LDAP or fedora-ds in particular :-) After looking at the existing server and what I had after installing on the new server, I decided that running /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl was probably necessary. I went through, answering the questions as best I could (and figuring that the answers would be overwritten when I restored the backup). I got this: [08/07/10:10:18:52] - [Setup] Info Are you ready to set up your servers? [08/07/10:10:18:56] - [Setup] Info yes [08/07/10:10:18:56] - [Setup] Info Creating directory server . . . [08/07/10:10:18:59] - [Setup] Info Your new DS instance 'unix-services2' was suc cessfully created. [08/07/10:10:18:59] - [Setup] Info Creating the configuration directory server . . . [08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Error: failed to open an LDAP connection to host 'unix-services2.my.domain.com.com' port '389' as user 'cn=Directory Ma nager'. Error: unknown. [08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Failed to create the configuration directory server [08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Exiting . . . Log file is '/tmp/setupVSpvCl.log Yes, that's two ".com"s No idea why. So, I stop the dirsrv process and try: [root@localhost ~]# ns-slapd archive2db -D /etc/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2 -a /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/in [10/Jul/2008:11:05:39 -0700] - ERROR: target server has no NetscapeRoot configured [10/Jul/2008:11:05:39 -0700] - archive2db: Failed to read backup file set. Either the directory specified doesn't exist, or it exists but doesn't contain a valid backup set, or file permissions prevent the server reading the backup set. error=53 (Invalid request descriptor) I have no idea what a NetscapeRoot is, why I would want one, or how I'd get it. Googling didn't help me... I found many references to "-0 netscaperoot", but that seems to be in reference to /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/adm.conf which does not exist on my new server. What is the easiest way for me to do this? Can I simply copy adm.conf (and other files? Which ones?) from the existing server? Or is there some mysterious problem about why the setup script couldn't contact the LDAP server which is to blame? -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * ***********************************************************************