In fact, you would get corruptions straight away if you tried to connect to
a shadow, it's writing file block straight to disk, it's not doing any
tranacation management. The replicated target, on the other hand, is falling
under all the transcation management you'd expect of a real live database
copy.
Alan

> I have a simple 'replication' system where local copies of
> data specific to each site are located on the local servers,
> and only changes are passed back to the main copy on the
> network server.
>
> All this differs from backup and shadow in that the
> replicated copies are all used by clients, while a backup or
> shadow is only used if the main copy becomes corrupt.
>
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> Lester Caine
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