Any problem with a 1.8MB blob in the tree? Re: Please try to upgrade an alpha10 when enforcing new rules in samdb

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:57:30PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> tdbdump would certainly be a reasonable option.  It would reconstruct
> the tdb in a much more accurate manner than ldif would (due to modules,
> indexes etc). 
> 
> > If we're talking about importing binary stuff from a stable release just
> > once,
> > for upgrade tests between major releases it might be acceptable to put them
> > in (if we really can't find a text based solution), but for upgrades between
> > alpha releases I think it's bad.
> 
> OK.  Could you help Matthieu if he has any problem with the scripts to
> create and reconstruct from tdbdump files?

You might want to look at the code in bug 6806. This is not
perfect yet, but it is a start and I would like to give
credit to the author.

Volker