I am looking to recover the LDAP data that I last from upgrading my 
server from 7.1 to 8.0. I did not back it up as ldif file. The RedHat 
8.0 was so cool on my desktop, I went and upgraded my server in haste; 
now I am paying for it :-[ .

Sundar

Kevin Buettner wrote:

>On Oct 14,  9:54am, Sundar wrote:
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>>Is there any  program that could dump what's in the Berkeley DB to text 
>>file or display it in human readable form?
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>As I recall, Berkeley DB provides facilities to look up some arbitrarily
>formatted data given an arbitrarily formatted key.  The structure of the
>key and its associated data are determined by the program making use of
>the Berkeley DB library.
>
>So... a program that does what you want would have to know the format
>of the keys and data.  That said, there are some programs that have
>been written for certain applications of Berkeley DB that will do what
>you want, but only for those applications.  E.g, the ``makemap'' program
>is used to create sendmail databases in Berkeley DB format.  The -u
>option may be used to print the contents of these databases in human
>readable form.
>
>Kevin
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