Buchan, I made exactly what you said even using the -q flag in the slapadd command. So in summary I did : 1) Load the master DB using LDIF file through slapdd(-q flag and DB_CACHEZIZE to 1GB); 2) Load the slave DB using LDIF(same) file through slapdd(-q flag and DB_CACHEZIZE to 1GB); 3)Then have the slapd.conf files appropriately configured 4)Start master and then after some minutes start slave.
Unless the LDIF was a valid export from a master, you should have slapcat'd the master after step 1, and used that LDIF to load the replica in step 2.
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