Hi Quanah,

Thanks for the helpful answers. Since the upgrade seems relatively straightforward, I'll work on upgrading to 2.4.42 soon.

On 8/15/15 2:40 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
For migrations between minor or major releases, 2.3->2.4 for example) that would be the correct procedure. For point releases it is almost never necessary. Exceptions being:

1) for BDB based backends, if the BDB major or minor version that OpenLDAP is linked to is different

2) early releases of slapd-mdb and current slapd-mdb, as there was an unavoidable db format change. I forget exactly when but I believe somewhere on the 2.4.2x releases.

Outside of that, a full reload is generally pointless, although it can reclaim unused space in the DB created by object deletions.

--Quanah


On Aug 15, 2015, at 2:01 PM, Mahmudul Hasan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Anytime I upgrade to new version I export the database using slapcat, and after upgrading re-import the data. If I am not wrong that is the recommended practice (http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/maintenance.html).

Thanks,
Mahmudul Hasan
System Support
University of Lethbridge, AB.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    2.4.42 is a bug fix release for significant issues that were in
    2.4.41. No new features were added. Primarily for bugs in
    slapd-mdb and the lmdb library itself.  I would upgrade to 2.4.42.

    As for your question about different versions there is no issue
    replicating between 2.4.39 and 2.4.41 or .42

    I would note that Howard checked in some potential syncrepl
    optimizations for slapd-mdb into the master branch this week that
    may help with your replication delays if you want to test them on
    top of 2.4.42.

    --Quanah


    On Aug 15, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Brian Wright <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


    We have a 2-way master production cluster actively running
    2.4.39. We are wanting to upgrade to 2.4.41 (we haven't yet
    internally certified 42). What is the best practices around
    upgrading this cluster while keeping at least one of the servers
    online? Is it replication-safe to have one node on 2.4.39 and
    one on 2.4.41 for a short period?

    If not, I can temporarily comment out the syncrepl statements
    until both servers are on 2.4.41 and then reenable replication
    after both are upgraded. We can live with short inconsistency
    period between the servers during the upgrade of the servers
    until we can resume replication. Also, is the DB format fully
    compatible between these two versions or would it be better to
    reload the DB new from an LDIF backup on 2.4.41? Is there an
    upgrade doc somewhere that discusses these issues?

    Thanks.

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