Re: Replication VS copying the master DB

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:24 PM -0800 Krishna Sivaramapuram 
<krishna@everyone.net> wrote:

> We're using Openldap 2.3.19 with BDB 4.3.29.
>
> I had stopped replication for a few days to figure out some problems in
> our slave machine... Now I've a huge amount of data to replicate... I was
> wondering if I should just copy the entire db from the master to the
> slave. Is it recommended to copy the master DB to the slave? I know that
> we can copy slave db files to another slave. But I haven't seen anything
> that says we can copy the db files from the master to a slave. Is this
> safe or should I just the replica catch up?

There are no differences in the database format between the masters and 
slaves... If you have different indexing between them, you will have to 
reindex, etc.

--Quanah

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Stanford University
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