this is a must have feature.

Replying to [comment:4 kimcharli]:

this is a must have feature.

I have raised the priority. But this issue is not likely to be fixed for a while.

You can force replication to happen immediately - you could write a script to do this - once a master is back up, tell the other masters to replicate to it immediately

see https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/html/Administration_Guide/Managing_Replication-Forcing_Replication_Updates.html#Forcing_Replication_Updates-Forcing_Replication_Updates_from_the_Command_Line

attachment
0001-Ticket-525-Introducing-a-user-visible-configuration-.patch

git merge ticket525
Updating 0c37479..41d95f8
Fast-forward
ldap/schema/01core389.ldif | 6 +-
ldap/servers/plugins/replication/repl5.h | 6 +
.../plugins/replication/repl5_inc_protocol.c | 62 ++++-
.../plugins/replication/repl5_prot_private.h | 4 +
ldap/servers/plugins/replication/repl5_replica.c | 295 +++++++++++---------
ldap/servers/plugins/replication/repl_globals.c | 2 +
.../plugins/replication/windows_inc_protocol.c | 20 +-
7 files changed, 239 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)

git push origin master
Counting objects: 27, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (14/14), done.
Writing objects: 100% (14/14), 3.32 KiB, done.
Total 14 (delta 12), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/389/ds.git
0c37479..41d95f8 master -> master

Ticket has been cloned to Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947486

attachment
0001-Ticket-525-Replication-retry-time-attributes-cannot-.patch

git merge ticket525
Updating 09f55fc..dde9abe
Fast-forward
ldap/servers/plugins/replication/repl5.h | 8 +-
ldap/servers/plugins/replication/repl5_replica.c | 48 +++++++++++-----
.../plugins/replication/repl5_replica_config.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

git push origin master
Counting objects: 17, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Writing objects: 100% (9/9), 1.77 KiB, done.
Total 9 (delta 7), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/389/ds.git
09f55fc..dde9abe master -> master

commit dde9abef5ca71fc0557c66cabb99cb0a6f5e0332
Author: Mark Reynolds mreynolds@redhat.com
Date: Thu Feb 13 14:54:11 2014 -0500

1.3.2

01a1121..56e3a09 389-ds-base-1.3.2 -> 389-ds-base-1.3.2
commit 56e3a09e714f0b2bf38bdf92ba43242a52c748ba

1.3.1

a4a4642..b45fb44 389-ds-base-1.3.1 -> 389-ds-base-1.3.1
commit b45fb4481ad2ab7824858d418ba09428191775a4

git patch file (master) -- Fixing "Coverity 12434 Dereference before null check"
0002-Ticket-525-Replication-retry-time-attributes-cannot-.patch

ack

Thank you for reviewing the fix, Rich.

Pushed to master:
cd35419..bbe0a99 master -> master
commit bbe0a9974c673336f42788cecaebdb46ddad03f4

Pushed to 389-ds-base-1.3.2:
c3cc56b..981c951 389-ds-base-1.3.2 -> 389-ds-base-1.3.2
commit 981c951cfc485f62f7207d42bcc563f0e50260e7

Pushed to 389-ds-base-1.3.1:
d6a57ad..4f9ec32 389-ds-base-1.3.1 -> 389-ds-base-1.3.1
commit 4f9ec32b9904a359caf6a9c2f92f1c6e107727d4

Linked to Bugzilla bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064986 (''Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7'')

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will be accepted only in 389-ds-base's github repository.

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- https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/525

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