At 12:13 AM 3/04/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi I'm very new to firebird. I've been thinking of moving from MySQL
>and was thinking PostgreSQL but Firebird seems way better.
>
>I've searched around a bit about replication, not sure if this is the
>proper place to ask but...
>
>In the OpGuide.pdf file, it says the platforms supported are various
>windows and solaris but that is sorta old.
>
>Is there a IBReplicator for linux, including the gui manager?

Yes. IBReplicator is a separate (commercial) product. The GUI manager
currently is a Windows-only client but there are server products supporting
all platforms..

>Also in the OpGuide.pdf it says that replication occurs directly
>between servers. So if there was two linux servers, the replicator
>manager just provides instructions to the databases to communicate
>directly?

To put it simplistically, it's where you set up what is extracted from the
source database and what is written to the target. There is quite a lot of
documentation about it here:

http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_replicator

heLen