Re: Replication VS copying the master DB

[Krishna Sivaramapuram <krishna@everyone.net>]

Thanks. I'll copy the master DB to the slave and then start the 
replication from that point. Thanks for your help.

Krish

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --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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