NIS+ and restoring from Replica

I am using NIS+ to manage passwords for a set of workstations and servers. I have never had to restore from the master server, but would like to be prepared in the event I have to do so. Currently I have a replica set-up. What happens if my primary root server fails? Will it automagically fail over to the replica? Or will I have to rebuild the NIS+ server, and then use my replica to rebuild tables, etc?
I haven't found much documentation regarding what to do in the event a root master NIS+ system fails. Any ideas regarding this would be extremely useful and helpful to me.
Thx in advance.

You're indeed correct that there has been very little written on this topic. Annoyingly little if I may add.
Unfortunately there is no nice way of making a new master server in NIS+. The only way to do this is by creating a blank, new master server which you then populate with table dumps from either a replica or which were made on the previous master.
At my employer we had to write a script to help us do all of this. The script makes a dump of all NIS+ tables twice a day. These dumps get backed up to tape and they get sent through NFS to all of our NIS+ replica systems. If there ever is the need to re-create the master we can use a second script to create a new master which gets populated using the database dumps.
Now here's the nasty part: I'm sorry, but I can't give out these scripts since they're covered by my non-disclosure contract. I have been thinking of using our script to write new ones though which I could post on the Internet (I've actually already made space for it on my website, now all I have to do is find some time to re-write the scripts).

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