OpenDJ Administration Guide
Chapter 3. Importing & Exporting LDIF Data

OpenDJ stores your data in a backend. OpenDJ stores directory data in backends. Backends are what you backup and restore. By default, OpenDJ stores your data in a backend named userRoot. You can create new backends using the dsconfig command. The following example creates a local backend named testData.

$ dsconfig create-backend --backend-name testData --type local-db


>>>> Configuring the "base-dn" property

    Specifies the base DN(s) for the data that the backend handles.

    A single backend may be responsible for one or more base DNs. Note that no
    two backends may have the same base DN although one backend may have a
    base DN that is below a base DN provided by another backend (similar to
    the use of sub-suffixes in the Sun Java System Directory Server). If any
    of the base DNs is subordinate to a base DN for another backend, then all
    base DNs for that backend must be subordinate to that same base DN.

    Syntax:  DN

Enter a value for the "base-dn" property: dc=example,dc=org

Enter another value for the "base-dn" property [continue]: 


>>>> Configuring the "enabled" property

    Indicates whether the backend is enabled in the server.

    If a backend is not enabled, then its contents are not accessible when
    processing operations.

Select a value for the "enabled" property:

    1)  true
    2)  false

    ?)  help
    q)  quit

Enter choice: 1


>>>> Configure the properties of the Local DB Backend

        Property           Value(s)
        --------------------------------------
    1)  backend-id         testData
    2)  base-dn            "dc=example,dc=org"
    3)  compact-encoding   true
    4)  db-cache-percent   10
    5)  db-cache-size      0 b
    6)  db-directory       db
    7)  enabled            true
    8)  index-entry-limit  4000
    9)  writability-mode   enabled

    ?)  help
    f)  finish - create the new Local DB Backend
    q)  quit

Enter choice [f]: 

The Local DB Backend was created successfully

Alternatively, you can create a new backend in OpenDJ Control Panel (Directory Data > New Base DN... > Backend > New Backend: backend-name).