Thanks for the input, Quanah. I really appreciate it.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> --On Thursday, November 01, 2012 1:04 PM -0400 Kyle Smith <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Is it possbile to use MMR to my advantage to switch over? For example,
>> take down 1 of the servers, switch the db config from bdb to mdb, and
>> then restart with a blank database (with appropriate structure) and
>> have the MMR take care of backfilling the mdb entries? Then I wouldn't
>> have to export to ldif, convert the db, and reimport while possibly
>> loosing data from the other systems.
>>
>
> Hi Kyle,
>
> I'm not sure what you are trying to avoid here... Slapcat/slapadd are
> always faster than sync replication.  Why would you lose data from the
> other server while doing this?  contextCSNs should be preserved w/
> slapcat/slapadd, so the server being converted will just catch up using
> sync replication as before.  You may wish to look at ITS#7427 though.  The
> fix for that is in current RE24.
>
>
> --Quanah
>
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>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
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> Zimbra, Inc
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