Quanah, This means I cannot use the same original LDIF file to load in parallel the master and slave at the same time. I need to load the master, then slapcat it and then finally load the slave to have a correct startup. Just confirming the procedure.
It depends. If the LDIF file is fully formed (i.e., it has all the operational attributes like entryUUID, etc), then yes, you can load them in parallel. If it doesn't have those, then no, you can't, because then the replica will simply spend all its time trying to re-download the entries from the master, because the entries don't match what is on the master.
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