Re: how to best create a new slave server?

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>]

Dave Horsfall schrieb:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, matthew sporleder wrote:
>
>
> > I keep an unused local replica on my master server to help create new
> > servers.  This way, I don't ever have to shutdown the master to copy
> > all of the files.
>
>
> With SyncRepl it's even easier; just configure the slave to suck over 
> whatever you need, fire up "slapd", and stand back...

I never used SyncRepl, but after reading about it, I somehow feel that 
changes are replicated to the slaves not when the changes are made on 
the master (which is almost immediate with slurpd), but when a slave 
wants, i.e. slave queries the master several times an hour (and causing 
unneeded traffic sometimes, especially when there are many slaves).

Or do I perhaps understand SyncRepl quite wrong? :)


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