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Re: Upgrade to 2.3.40 -> failed index
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Howard Chu wrote:
> You cannot copy the database files from one machine to another unless
> you're extremely careful and follow the procedures outlined in the
> BerkeleyDB documentation. It sounds like you didn't follow those
> procedures. Your problem isn't coincidental, it's inevitable when you
> don't RTFM.
Huh?
I can't seem to find it right now, but I distinctly recall reading
documentation that indicated you could either start a syncrepl slave with
no database, or to jumpstart the process and make it quicker you could copy
the database from the master on to it before starting.
While no longer in the 2.4 documentation, the documentation from 2.3:
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/replication.html#Configuring%20slurpd%20and%20a%20slave%20slapd%20instance
Discusses copying the database from the master to the slave in a slurpd
context. Other than indicating to be sure that both systems are homogenous
(same hardware, same OS, same versions; which in my case was completely
true), there are no dire warnings or pointers to BerkeleyDB documentation
procedures.
I took another quick look at the BerkeleyDB documentation on the Oracle
site and did not see anything that seemed relevant to copying databases
between machines. Could I trouble you for a URL to see whether there is
anything in those procedures that might have been violated?
Also, even if for some reason the copies on the two slaves were invalid,
that would not explain why the master failed. The database on the master
was the original database built by slapadd when the server was first put
into commission. How could making a copy of it have caused it to fail
itself? Additionally taking into consideration that all three worked fine
for almost a year under heavy load, it just doesn't seem likely that the
failure of both the original master and both slaves was caused by an
improper database copy.
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