Re: Fatest way to transfer ldap data to another machine

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

Most of this has been covered previously.  The archives are
the best place to find quick answers to such questions.

At 03:43 PM 2/24/00 +0800, syw wrote: 
> I'm am setting a slave ldap server. I would like to copy
> 50,000 records from the master server into the slave. The master server is > miles
> away. What's the fatest way of doing so?

If homogeneous servers are involved, a DB copy is the fast way.
  
> Can i just copy the database files over to the slave machine without shutting > down the ldap daemon?

No.
  
> At this moment i write my C program to dump the records from master into a > text file,

You mean like ldbmcat?

> ftp the text file
> over to the slave, run another program in the slave to read line by line from > the file and update the ldap using the ldap_add function call.

Sounds like a job of ldif2ldbm or ldapadd.

> Problem is the slave machine is a raid machine and adding each records seems to slow

Adds are expensive.  See the FAQ for configuration hints.
 
> I'm thinking of the first option which is just copy the database files over. > Of course i will take care to shutdown registration during this moment., but > i don't want to shutdown daemon. Will it work?
  
No, you need to shutdown the master long enough to make the copy.
Otherwise you run the risk of losing information.