DSEE7 replication changelog delete

Question

Hello there,
How do i delete replication changelog db in dsee7. I know in 5.2, i can put the db in readonly mode and run ldapmodify command...
dn: cn=changelog5,cn=config
changetype: delete
and then add the changelog which will create a new changelog db. But in dsee7 i am not sure how to do this since there is no separate DN like above in dsee7.
Have any one done this or know how to?
Thanks!

Answer 1

AFAIK that's pretty much how you do it in DS7. You could try a couple other things, like:
1) Just stop the server and manually remove the changelog DB file
2) Save off the omega tombstone (nsuniqueid=ffffffff-ffffffff-...) and then readd it after you have lost the replica state
Though I am fairly confident neither of these is supported. Deleting the changelog file may even make your DB unusable and force you to reinitialize from LDIF, since the latest Berkeley DB is much less forgiving about tinkering with its files.
If you are trying to shrink down the changelog to a more manageable size, and you know it is mostly empty, have you tried using the DB compaction tool? It's supposed to reclaim space in the DB files, including the changelog.