Re: Sync replication failure during startup.

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Stelios Grigoriadis wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 13:44 -0700, William R. Somsky wrote:
> > I've had a similar problem here.  I don't really have much to 
> > add in the way of info for tracking it down, but here is an
> > additional question:
> >
> > Once a replica server gets out of sync w/ the master in this way,
> > how does one get the replica back in sync?  I've not been able
> > to figure that out, short of deleting the entire database on 
> > the replica and rebuilding it from scratch, which can take a
> > very long time.

IMO it's not worth answering this question until you know why things got out of 
sync in the first place.

> To my knowledge, you can't. Since the replica contextCSN is
> timestamped at a later time than the out-of-sync entries,
> they can't be synced.

You obviously haven't read the slapd(8) manpage carefully enough. See the "-c" option.

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