Re: ldapdelete recursive (-r) with syncrepl

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:29 PM -0400 Frank Crow 
<fjcrow2008@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, OK.   Our formal test procedures (created and executed by a
> separate team) will intentionally do all manner of destructive changes to
> the DIT after taking a snapshot.    After which they want to clean and
> reload the entire DIT in order to: 1) be able to run the tests multiple
> times with the same data, and 2) restore the DIT for normal (non-OpenLDAP
> related) testing that does need the DIT intact.

Then just slapcat the data first, do your destructive tests, and then 
restore from slapadd.  Doing repetitive ldap deletes/adds will just causes 
massive database growth.

> During production use, we would not be doing that.   For that, I think
> the individual node repair (slapadd/slapcat) would be exactly what we
> need.
>
>
> I took your suggestion and forwarded the list of changes since 2.4.40
> (with the syncrepl fixes highlighted) to the important people up the
> "flag pole" this morning.   I am "fighting the good fight" with them but
> they are hesitant to move without strenuous "encouragement!"   ;-)

I guess it just depends on whether or not they consider data loss 
acceptable.  If they do find it acceptable, by all means, stay on 2.4.40. ;)

Also not sure which database backend you're using, but I'd strongly advise 
back-mdb once you get to 2.4.44.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Platform Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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