Re: Copying trees from one consumer to another

[Nick Urbanik <nick.urbanik@optusnet.com.au>]

Dear Quanah,

Thank you again for your very helpful replies.

On 22/06/10 07:57 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 12:24 PM +1000 Nick Urbanik 
> <nick.urbanik@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > If so, does that mean that with syncrepl, the above operation is
> > reduced to the following three steps?
> >
> > 1. Stop slapd on both consumers.
> > 2. Netcat the database from one to the other.
> > 3. start both consumers.
>
> The officially supported method is slapcat/slapadd.  But as long as
> your architecture is the same, yes, the above steps are fine,
> although I use scp rather than netcat to copy the db.

When the database is many gigabytes in size, netcat is fast; I get
impatient :-)

> You failed to note running db_recover before copying the databases,
> which I would recommend (to force writing out any pending data in the
> BDB env).

Thank you very much for this!  I was unaware of the need for this.  I
will investigate it further.
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