[Freeipa-users] Problem with replication after restore

[tomasz.napierala at allegro.pl]

On 2011-03-09, at 20:33, Rich Megginson wrote:

> On 03/09/2011 09:15 AM, tomasz.napierala at allegro.pl wrote:
>> On 2011-03-09, at 15:09, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> 
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>>>> [04/Mar/2011:14:59:17 +0100] NSMMReplicationPlugin - agmt="cn=meToMASTER636" (XXX:636): Missing data encountered
>>>> [04/Mar/2011:14:59:17 +0100] NSMMReplicationPlugin - agmt="cn=meToMASTER636" (XXX:636): Incremental update failed and requires administrator action
>>> Not sure what happened here.  How long has the server been down?  You
>>> will need to reinitialize the slave from the master.
>> Server was down for 2-3 hours. Currently slave has more recent data, because it is in our production environment (master is in backup DC)
>> 
>> I don't have much experience with 389, and it seems that in FreeIPA setup 389 DS is in minimal form. So how can I reinitialize slave? Is there any chance to transfer changes form slave to master? Im afraid that loosing changes on slave would be a disaster (there were hundreds of users added)
> ipa-replica-manage - you would want to initialize the master from the 
> slave.  Please make a backup of your slave first.

Just to make sure I'm getting the thing right: is there any risk for slave during reinitialization?

Regards,
-- 
Tomasz Z. Napierała
Systems Architecture Engineer,
IT Infrastructure Department
Allegro Team
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