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Re: Data portability between slaves

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:


--On Friday, March 31, 2006 12:48 PM +1100 Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au> wrote:

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> Given two slaves with identical releases and data, how portable are
> the BDB files and SLAPCAT files between them?  That is, does the
> entryUUID attribute (or anything else) contain host-specific
> information?

They are identical (or should be). 

Thanks.

I've recovered a slave after hard drive failure several times simply by
stopping slapd on a different slave, and then copying the database from
that replica to the one with the new hard drive (note that you want to
run db_recover after stopping slapd, before copying over the files).

To make db_recover update the *.bdb files from the log? I know it's done
on startup, but I would've thought that a sync would have been done on
shutdown, too. That explains a couple of things I've seen... 

On a clean shutdown a full checkpoint/sync will also occur, yes.

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