Re: Data portability between slaves

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, March 31, 2006 12:24 PM +1100 Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au> 
wrote:

> Given two slaves with identical releases and data, how portable are the
> BDB files and SLAPCAT files between them?  That is, does the entryUUID
> attribute (or anything else) contain host-specific information?

They are identical (or should be).

I've recovered a slave after hard drive failure several times simply by 
stopping slapd on a different slave, and then copying the database from 
that replica to the one with the new hard drive (note that you want to run 
db_recover after stopping slapd, before copying over the files).

entryUUID, etc, *must* be the same on all systems for syncrepl to work 
correctly.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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