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Re: what databases are to be replicated for a slave?

Le 29/12/2015 11:04, Quanah Gibson-Mount a écrit :
--On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:39 AM +0400 Jephte Clain <jephte.clain@univ-reunion.fr> wrote: 


Le 28/12/2015 19:12, Quanah Gibson-Mount a écrit :



I'm not sure to understand what you are saying.
the "master" and the "slaves" are identical, and the cn=config are the
same on all hosts
so they are truly replicates, right?
No. Replicas do not accept writes. Replicas do not have a master configuration for cn=config. Replica's do not have server IDs.
ok I guess I understand. this is the reason why I usually call them "slaves", not replicas (but I messed things up and called them replicas this time ^^) I also have replicas that only replicate data (or a subset of data) for some services
the slaves are there in case of catastrophic failure of both masters (we had one of these failure for another service due to a problem with the shared storage. No one want to have this kind of emergency...) If the master(s) crash, I just have to choose a slave as the new master, slapcat the cn=config database, update the provider address, slapadd the updated config, and update the loadbalancer settings. this is a bit of work but at least we can restore service in a (relatively) small amount of time.
In fact, the configuration is generated by a script I wrote several years 
ago, and all databases for a "master" configuration are generated with a
syncprov overlay and a syncrepl directive, to enable "seed replication":



After the problems I had, I took the time to read the admin guide again
and noticed the accesslog database was not to be replicated, or it seemed 
so
I then wondered if the replication I configured on the accesslog database 
was the cause for my issues...
hence my question to be sure I understood correctly


Accesslog is unique to a given master.

Ok that's what I wanted to know for sure

Shouldn't the doc stat this clearly?




Here is another question: if an accesslog database is stricly local to a
server, how should two masters in mirror mode be configured?
I have a bi-master setup with an active/passive configuration: the
loadbalancer only send the requests to the first master, unless it stop
responding.
if the first master crashes, and writes are diriged toward the second
master, won't I lose the accesslog informations?
Every master must have a unique server ID. Each master will replicate the writes from another master, and update their accesslog accordingly. You will not lose any writes. 
that's a relief



I'm guessing your configurations are generally incorrect.

Yes, I'm updating them right now to disable replication of the accesslog
Thanks a lot for the clarification. In case you come to the reunion island someday, I owe you a beer! 

best regards,
Jephté CLAIN

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