Yes, I know that you can set nsds5ReplicaUpdateSchedule to "0000-2359 0123456", which forces the update, but this would mean that I know that the other box was down. Is there are different way to do it? Thanks, -Reinhard -----Original Message----- From: fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rich Megginson Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:52 PM To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project. Subject: Re: Replication: How long does it take untilreplicated servers are in sync after one of them came up.... Reinhard Nappert wrote: > > Hi, > > Consider the following scenario: > You have a replicated environment, let's say a MMR setup. Now, one of > the masters (M2) is down for a period of time and updates were > performed against the other master (M1). How long does it take until > both boxes are in sync, after M2 is back online. I assume that M1 > tries to update M2 throughout the downtime in an interval setting. If > this is right, what is this interval and secondly, can this be configured. > The interval uses a backoff strategy - it first tries after 1 second, then after 2 seconds, then after 4 seconds, etc. doubling every time until it hits a maximum of every 5 minutes. This is not configurable, but there is a way to send updates now which will break it out of the wait/backoff. > > Thanks, > -Reinhard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >