Best and most efficient way to upgrade openLDAP

2011-01-18 Thread Ghyslain Tissot
Hello, We are looking for input on how to upgrade openLDAP from 2.2 to 2.3. We have looked and it seems the only documented way to upgrade is by unloading and reloading the data which is very time consuming (approx. 8-10 hours). Since this is a production system it is not adequate. What options

Re: Best and most efficient way to upgrade openLDAP

2011-01-18 Thread Howard Chu
Ghyslain Tissot wrote: Hello, We are looking for input on how to upgrade openLDAP from 2.2 to 2.3. We have looked and it seems the only documented way to upgrade is by unloading and reloading the data which is very time consuming (approx. 8-10 hours). Since this is a production system it is

Failover Failure Advice

2011-01-18 Thread Anton Chu
I've setup a master and slave ldap service for failover; however, I'd like some advice on how to keep the ldap clients cached with the ldap creds if ever the master and slave ldap server goes. I've tried to extend the time of the caching on nscd - name server caching daemon - but it doesnt work

Re: Failover Failure Advice

2011-01-18 Thread Howard Chu
Anton Chu wrote: I've setup a master and slave ldap service for failover; however, I'd like some advice on how to keep the ldap clients cached with the ldap creds if ever the master and slave ldap server goes. I've tried to extend the time of the caching on nscd - name server caching daemon -

Re: Failover Failure Advice

2011-01-18 Thread jekvb
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 14:43 -0800, Anton Chu wrote: I've setup a master and slave ldap service for failover; My failover construction is a bit different, but it works quite nicely, so I 'd like to share this. For a simple and reliable failover I have two LDAP servers in Mirror mode with