So we have escalated on Sun enough that they brought in an expert, Fred Munday. He reviewed the work, our procedures, and they even tried performing the event for us once. It turns out we have one of the largest iPlanet LDAP systems in the world.
On an impulse, Fred just took the binary file itself from the original master LDAP, moved it over, and started the backup master LDAP process. Theoretically this shouldn’t work. But it did!
I’m actually writing this post years after this, so the date of the fix is an estimate. If I recall correctly, one of engineers also realized that the file transfer between the two boxes was taking too long. He figured out that the routing was set up wrong and it was going over a Gigabit NIC configured to run at Fast Ethernet(10% of it’s function) speeds. So he set up the copy to run over another Gigabit NIC and that really increased the speed of the transfer. Not by 900%, but much faster.
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