take on future events

David Collier-Brown davecb at Canada.Sun.COM
Mon Feb 1 14:51:02 GMT 1999


Greg Dickie wrote:
> > I was operating under the assumption that we'd be replicating for stability,
> > not for load distribution.  In that case only one server would be updating
> > at a given time.

	We could look at it in two ways:
	1) hot fail-over, done with a private replication
	   scheme between servers, and
	2) multiple wins servers, which would need incremental
	  replication

	The former is easy: file transfer would suffice.
	The latter needs a protocol designbed.

--dave
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