With ldifde, I've got big problems with binary values; e.g. when I exported some trees containing binary stuff (e.g. german umlauts, certificates) to a file and tried to reimport the file, it often failed because ldifde didn't understand the format it has been written.

For this and several other reasons (e.g. a directory normally doesn't like to get it's data completely deleted and reimported and takes revenge with huge memory usage and big "databases"), I changed to in- and exporting and also synchronizing stuff with Net::LDAP (also called Perl::LDAP on CPAN).

Best regards,
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