Ok, thanks for the clarification. That's what I needed to know.

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Regards,

Kevin Martin

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:45 PM Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@symas.com wrote:

--On Thursday, August 19, 2021 1:35 PM -0500 kevin martin ktmdms@gmail.com wrote:

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i understand that ldap is a protocol but it occurred to me that a database change (where tables and the like might be different and slapd version dependent) might need to be a sitewide thing, not a server by server thing (meaning the 2.4 servers, once the "database" is mirrored from the master server, might not understand the new format?).

The only limitation would be that you could not mdb_copy a 2.5 database and run that under a 2.4 slapd. Since it's purely internal, the replication protocol has no "knowledge" of it, and it would not appear in an LDIF created by slapcat.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: http://www.symas.com