I've just been looking at mirrormode in CVS HEAD. It seems to break slapcat:

ldapsrv2:~# /ldap/sbin/slapcat > /tmp/x /ldap/etc/slapd.conf: line 122: <mirrormode> database is not a shadow slapcat: bad configuration file!

I *think* this is because in tool mode, the database doesn't get flagged as a shadow (whereas obviously it does in server mode). Does that sound plausible?

The sync-related bits of my slapd.conf are:

serverID 123

overlay syncprov syncprov-checkpoint 100 10 syncprov-sessionlog 100

syncrepl rid=123 provider=ldap://other-server:389 type=refreshAndPersist interval=01:00:00:00 retry="10 10 120 +" searchbase="dc=sanger,dc=ac,dc=uk" scope=sub filter="(objectClass=*)" bindmethod=simple binddn="elided" credentials=elided

mirrormode on

lastmod on

thanks, Dave