Restoring openldap configuration from ldif file?

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Published on 2011-10-19T19:46:59Z Indexed on 2011/11/11 17:59 UTC
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I am trying to restore my OpenLDAP server from an ldif file I made before it went horribly wrong.

All of the websites I found talk about using slapadd but when I run slapadd -v -l ~ns01/openldap_config.ldif it returns the error Could not stat config file "/etc/ldap/slapd.conf" : No such file or directory (2) slapadd: bad configuration file!

When I look in the directory indeed the file does not exist, but this is because Ubuntu 11.10 is running in RTC mode, my LDAP server uses the /etc/slapd.d/cn=config for the configuration. So? What am I missing? Is slapadd the wrong tool to use?

As I said above I running on Ubuntu 11.10 server edition 64-bit.

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