Copying master slapd database to slave

["Geoffrey L. Wright" <geoff@akwebart.com>]

I was just wondering how I should get the contents of a master 
slapd server to a new slave.  The two servers are _not_ identically 
configured.  The master slapd server serves a number of databases 
and the slave only handles one.  I've tried to simply copy all the 
appropriate database files from one server to the other and this 
does not seem to work.  The files transfer and the slave starts, 
but none of the transfered data is visible.

Can I export all the data in the master slapd server to an ldif 
file and import it in the other database?  Or is there a better 
way?  I'm going to have to do this literally hundreds of times, so 
I'm hoping to find the most efficient and reliable way to do this.

I'm running OpenLDAP 2.0.21 under RedHat 7.2 on the master slapd 
server and OpenLDAP 2.0.23 on a Sun Cobalt Qube 3 on the slave 
slapd servers.



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