15.15. Exporting the Replication Changelog

In certain situations, such as when you want to encrypt the replication changelog, you must export the changelog as part of the process. Complete this procedure to export the changelog.

Prerequisites

  • Replication is enabled on the Directory Server instance.

Procedure

To export the changelog to the /tmp/changelog.ldif file, enter:
# dsconf -D "cn=Directory Manager" ldap://server.example.com replication dump-changelog -o /tmp/changelog.ldif
Note that the dirsrv user requires appropriate file system permissions to create the specified file.