Re: cloning instances of openldap?

[Christopher Orr <cjorr@psych.purdue.edu>]

Thomas-

> Is it safe to use a 'clone' of an openldap servers's database to  
> rebuild another server in a cluster?
>
> In my tests, I followed a procedure where I shut 2 servers down,  
> copied the backend database from one to the other, and restarted and  
> everything seems to indicate that the 'cloned' server is valid.  
> Replication works.. Adds/deletes work.. etc..
>
> Is there any danger in using this procedure?  Is there anything  
> 'instance specific' that is stored in the directory that could cause  
> an issue?
>
> Ive found that even using slapadd's 'quick' flag it can still take 4  
> hours to import an LDIF, and if I can rely on this procedure to  
> rebuild an LDAP read server in a crisis, I'd like to continue using  
> it.

While I'm sure someone else will say that it's not advisable, I've  
cloned the disc of a Solaris 10 (x86-64) machine
running OpenLDAP and haven't ran into any issues with it yet.   
(Knocking on wood)

However- OpenLDAP was not running at the time.

Best of luck-
-chris

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