CentOS - May 2018 - move LDAP service to new server

On my old Centos 7 server I had set up a LDAP database for user authentication 
by other services (the server locally uses normal PAM authenticatin).

I set it up originally from a web page describing how to set up an LDAP server 
for use with MS Outlook clients (which never worked)

Is there any (easy to follow) instructions anywhere to tell me how to back up 
this service and restore it onto a new one?

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 03:57:43PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Is there any (easy to follow) instructions anywhere to tell me how to back
up
> this service and restore it onto a new one?
This is basically running slapcat on your old server and slapadd on the new one.

openldap config can be either stored as files on disk or inside of the LDAP
and must be handled separatly.

best regards
Ulf

On Thursday 31 May 2018 17:13:49 Ulf Volmer wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 03:57:43PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Is there any (easy to follow) instructions anywhere to tell me how to
> > back up this service and restore it onto a new one?
>
> This is basically running slapcat on your old server and slapadd on the new
> one.
>
> openldap config can be either stored as files on disk or inside of the LDAP
> and must be handled separatly.
>
> best regards
> Ulf
Hi Ulf,

Thank you for this. Once I stopped Googling 'move' and tried backup /
restore
instead I did manage to find quite a few postings about this. However 
whenever I tried to follow these postings I came up with errors after 
completing the move.

In the end I shut down slapd on both the old and new servers, 
removed /etc/openldap and /var/lib/ldap, and then rsync'd the old files to 
the new one

Once this was done, I restarted slapd on the old and new servers and both 
worked perfectly