Re: Translucent overlays & replication.

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

John Maddock wrote:
>    Andy.
>
>     Thanks for the reply.
>
> > You can't because translucent uses back-ldap which disables lastmod, so
> > replicating the local database is at least impossible with syncrepl.
>
> > The solution I came up with was to slapcat/slapadd when I do changes to the
> > translucent db...
>
>     Would you mind elaborating? The slave server would have to be stopped to
> use slapadd?
>
>     What I find particularly puzzling is that there seems to be no
> recommended
> way of doing this. Surely if translucent overlays are used then replication
> of them is essential.

Not "surely"; the envisioned use case was a small departmental server 
customizing a small amount of data mastered by a main server. Replication was 
never a requirement in the original spec.
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