Judging by the number of other comments about the miracles of 2.30, maybe I'll try to talk to my admins and see if I can get that.

Steven

-----Original Message----- From: openldap-software-bounces+stharms=cisco.com@openldap.org [mailto:openldap-software-bounces+stharms=cisco.com@openldap.org] On Behalf Of Tony Earnshaw Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:04 AM Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org Subject: Re: Disaster recovery question wrt replication

Steven Harms (stharms) wrote:

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I suppose, more generally, I'm asking: How do a start replication all over. What files can / should I delete. Which should I not under any

circumstance touch?

Others (Quanah) have mentioned dropping implementation of slurpd in favor of i(delta-)syncrepl - requires upgrading to 2.3(.30 at the moment).

This site used to use slurpd with OpenLDAP 2.2. Before we switched to 2.3, we tested syncrepl slave DB rebuilds from scratch (empty DB, valid slapd.conf and DB_CONFIG in the DB directory). We simply started slapd on the slave machines and the small (about 40MB) DB was automatically rebuilt within seconds (100Mb Ethernet and fast SCSI RAID5), high-quality iron.

Having previously had to deal with the same thing with slurpd earlier, I was completely gob-smacked.

--Tonni

-- Tonni Earnshaw tonni @ barlaeus.nl