Description of problem:
This bug is opened with reference to the bug id:750425
During the promotion or demotion operation of a replica(cases like when Master
is demoted to play the Hub role  and Hub is promoted to play the Master), if we
delete the replica entry for the suffix to recreate a new replica for the same
suffix then it intern delete the changelogdb file associated with that replica
role, which causes data loss in few scenarios mentioned below.
Scenario-1:
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Topology:
       Master ( Replica ID: 1)
         |
        Hub
      /     \
Consumer1  Consumer2
let us consider in this topology everybody are in sync up to a specific CSN say
"CSN5". Now consumer1 is taken out of the topology for some reason. Master is
open to receive the updates. Now consider in the topology all are in sync up to
"CSN10" where as Cosumer1 is in "CSN5" because it's out of topology. Due to
some reason Master disaster happened so to reduce the downtime the Hub is
promoted to play the Master role in the absence of original Master. The steps
which are followed to promote a Hub to plat the Master role is given
below.After Hub is being promoted its open now to receive the changes.
Now bring back the Consumer1 into to topology without initializing the
Consumer1. In this case, Consumer1 will miss the changes from "CSN6" to
"CSN10".
This is one the potential data loss issue.
Steps followed during Promotion:
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All these steps are followed when the "ns-slapd" process is running.
  Note: Please note that the promotion operation is getting performed when hub
is up and running.
  1:   Delete the supplier bind DN(cn=<suppdn>,cn=config)  from the Slave.
       This the DN which was being used by the master to communicate with the
       Hub/consumer. This being used when we create the replication aggrement.
   EX:    dn: cn=replication manager,cn=config
          objectClass: inetorgperson
          objectClass: top
          cn: replication manager
          sn: RM
          userPassword: password
          passwordExpirationTime: 20380119031407Z
        # /opt/dirsrv/bin/ldapmodify -h localhost -p  4601
                               -D "cn=directory manager" -w <xxxxx>
          dn: cn=replication manager,cn=config
          changetype: delete
   2: Make a copy of the "nsDS5ReplicaName" attribute value from the replica
      entry.
   3:  Modify cn=replica entry. it will in-tern delete the changelogdb file.
        EX:  /opt/dirsrv/bin/ldapmodify -h localhost -p  4601
                                      -D "cn=directory    manager" -w <xxxx>
             dn: cn=replica,cn="dc=ind, dc=hp, dc=com",cn=mapping
tree,cn=config
             changetype: delete
          Note: After this step there won't be any changelogdb file for the hub
   4:  Modify "cn=<suffix>,cn=mapping tree, cn=config" entry
            # /opt/dirsrv/bin/ldapmodify -h localhost -p  4601
                                      -D "cn=directory manager" -w <xxxx>
              dn: cn="dc=ind, dc=hp, dc=com",cn=mapping tree,cn=config
              changetype: modify
              replace: nsslapd-state
              nsslapd-state: backend
            # /opt/dirsrv/bin/ldapmodify -h localhost -p  4601
                                            -D "cn=directory manager" -w <xxxx>
              dn: cn="dc=ind, dc=hp, dc=com",cn=mapping tree,cn=config
              changetype: modify
              delete: nsslapd-referral
   5: Now Re-create the cn=replica entry.
           # /opt/dirsrv/bin/ldapmodify -h localhost -p  4601
                                            -D "cn=directory manager" -w <xxxx>
             dn: cn=replica,cn="dc=ind, dc=hp, dc=com",cn=mapping
tree,cn=config
             changetype: add
             objectClass: nsDS5Replica
             objectClass: top
             nsDS5ReplicaRoot: dc=ind, dc=hp, dc=com
             nsDS5ReplicaType: 3
             nsDS5Flags: 1
             nsDS5ReplicaId: 1  < This is the same replicaid which is being
used by the Master >
             nsDS5ReplicaName: < Same value which was taken in step-2 above>
             cn: replica
             nsds5ReplicaPurgeDelay: 1
             nsds5ReplicaTombstonePurgeInterval: -1
    Step-5: Restart the Hub. Now Hub becomes Master
There are couple of other scenario where we can see this type of issue.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Frequently
Steps to Reproduce:
Steps are given above to reproduce the issue.
Actual results:
Expected results:
In this case, the expectation is, if we could modify the replica entry instead
of deleting it during promotion or demotion operation and also retain the
changelog db file when modification is done on the replica entry, it could
resolve few of the data loss scenario in the topology.
Additional info:
Please let me know if more details necessary on this.