Migration and copying schema

Question

Greetings,
I am in the process of upgrading from DS 5.2 to 6.3. I am using dsmig to migrate. Here is what I am doing.
a) I make a complete image of the 5.2 instance and copying it to the new 6.3 machine
b) The name of the 5.2 schema is schemaORIG (example).
c) I use dsmig to import (schema, configuration and security). The 6.3 schema is called schemaNEW.
d) Now I was to rename schemaNEW to schemaORIG.
To rename the schemaNew I am thinking of doing:
a) Remove the schemaORIG since it is copy of files from the old ldap server
b) Use dscc to create a new schema and call it schemaORIG and copy all the settings from schemaNEW.
Does this approach make sense? I am new to this game so any better approach will be appreciated.
I looked for the solutions on this topic but was not successful and I apologize if this question has been answered before.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
Well I don't think that you should play with renaming the databases. The best way is to do it this way:
1. Install the new DS 6.3 on the same server on which you have DS 5.2
2. Migrate only the schema:
/opt/SUNWdsee/ds6/bin/dsmig -v /OLD/INSTANCE/PATH /NEW/INSTANCE/PATH
3. Modify the cn=replication manager,cn=replication,cn=config (also known as replication manager) password * the password must be identical as on 5.2
4. Create empty suffixes on the new directory server
/opt/SUNWdsee/ds6/bin/dsconf create-suffix SUFFIX
5. Change the owslsLockoutPrioritized from TRUE to FALSE (this is causing replicaion errors between 5.2 and 6.X):
/opt/SUNWdsee/dsee6/bin/ldapmodify -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w YOURDIRECTORYMANAGERPASSWORD
dn: cn=Password Policy,cn=config
changeType: modify
replace: pwdIsLockoutPrioritized
pwdIsLockoutPrioritized: FALSE
6. enable replication on all suffixes that you need:
/opt/SUNWdsee/ds6/bin/dsconf enable-repl SUFFIX
and initialize the suffixes from DS 5.2
7. Reindex all suffixes
8. configure all replication agreements for old ds 5 instances.
Predrag