Re: Replication VS copying the master DB

[matthew sporleder]

If you're replicating with slurpd, it's pretty fast.

On 2/26/06, Krishna Sivaramapuram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're using Openldap 2.3.19 with BDB 4.3.29.
>
> I had stopped replication for a few days to figure out some problems in
> our slave machine... Now I've a huge amount of data to replicate... I
> was wondering if I should just copy the entire db from the master to the
> slave. Is it recommended to copy the master DB to the slave? I know that
> we can copy slave db files to another slave. But I haven't seen anything
> that says we can copy the db files from the master to a slave. Is this
> safe or should I just the replica catch up?
>
> Krish
>