NAME

       CLONE PREPARE - Prepare for cloning a node.

SYNOPSIS

       clone prepare [ id] [ provider] [ comment]

DESCRIPTION

       Prepares for cloning a specified subscriber node.

       This duplicates the ‘provider’ node's configuration under a new node ID in preparation for
       the node to be copied via standard database tools.

       Note that in order that we be certain that this new node be consistent with all nodes,  it
       is  important to issue a SYNC event against every node aside from the provider and wait to
       start copying the provider database at  least  until  all  those  SYNC  events  have  been
       confirmed by the provider. Otherwise, it is possible for the clone to miss some events.

EXAMPLE

            clone prepare (id = 33, provider = 22, comment='Clone 33');
            sync (id=11);
            sync (id=22);

SLONIK EVENT CONFIRMATION BEHAVIOUR

       Slonik  will  wait  until the node being cloned (the provider) is caught up with all other
       nodes before submitting the clone prepare command

VERSION INFORMATION

       This command was introduced in Slony-I 2.0.

                                         6 February 2014                  SLONIK CLONE PREPARE(7)