Re: Can't start with DB_BUFFER_SMALL error

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> On 14-Sep-07, at 12:18 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> > Another possibility is that you created the DB on a 64-bit machine  
> > and are now trying to read it with 32-bit code, since that would  
> > also affect the size of the item in question.
>
> That's exactly what happened - my master is on amd64, slave is on  
> i386.  I had slurpd running, but couldn't figure out if the databases  
> were sync'd.  The servers hadn't been talking in awhile, so I figured  
> the easiest thing to do was to sync up the databases again manually,  
> then fire up slurpd.

You are never supposed to copy the raw database files around. slapcat/slapadd 
are the only documented means for backing up/migrating/restoring databases.

> My plan of attack will just be to slapcat the master and slapadd it  
> on the slave, then fire up slurpd.  The slave is the one that's  
> showing the error - the master is fine.

You should switch to using syncrepl.
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