Re: Master and Slave (and the other way around) [auf Viren überprüft]

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Hans Moser <hans.moser@ofd-sth.niedersachsen.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> We plan to build an OpenLDAP-infrastructure with a central server and a
> few decentral servers.
> Changes on LDAP-objects can only be made in the OpenLDAP-masterserver,
> not in the slave. That's what I read.
> For the most of our data this is no problem, it is writen to the central
> server, so it will become our master.
> But a few attributes in special OU-branches have to be written to the
> decentral servers. So my considerations is, it -if ever - might be
> possible with different database backend definitions.
>
> Can I split my DIT into different backends, so that some branches of the
> DIT are slave on the central server and master on one decentral server?

Yes, partly replication is possible
Just create 2 or more databases as subordinates and glue these.

-Dieter

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