Hi Folks,
I have recently been tasked with moving a Single Ldap Master from a dying machine to a
spanking new blade. After doing some research it appears to me that the optimum way to do
this will be installing a fresh instance of the application on the new server, import the
database and then recreate and reinitialize all the hubs and replicas. The problem I face
is that this work place has a humongous LDAP database will 3 mil+ entries.
Re-initialization is taking upto 3 hours in some cases. With 5 hubs and 20 replicas to
reinitialize, the downtime is unacceptable to the client.
If I stop writes to the Master, then export the database to the new box and recreate the
New-Master-Hub replication after removing the old Master , will I still need to
re-initialize the hubs? Is there any way to do this swap without reinitializing or fooling
the hubs and reps into thinking that they are still talking to the same Master albeit on a
new machine (same ip address/dns).
The client is still using ver. 1.1.2 on Centos 5.4
Thanks,
Shar Ker