Re: LDAP syncrepl - only partial replication when consumer has been down

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

rob fielding wrote:

> Is there a confidence inspiring command or log I can use to ensure data
> integrity?
>
> Apologies if this is obvious. I'm afraid I have found the docs which
> talk about LDAP sync Replication quite hard to follow. I don't intend
> this to be a flame on the authors, but there is scope here for
> improvement, specifically in the area titled 14.3.1 where it talks about
> the various syncProvider and syncConsumer entries and the options that
> retrieve or generate them and reasons for them:
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin22/syncrepl.html
>  
Things in 2.3 are much improved. I found most of that document hard to 
follow too, and I've rewritten large chunks of the code and the docs to 
make it simpler.

There is nothing confidence-inspiring in the 2.2 syncrepl engine. I 
would try the 2.3 version instead, it is much more usable.

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