2008/7/29 Alan McDonald <alan@...>

> > I need to examine the options available that will allow me to have
> > continuous real-time replication (one-way acceptable, bi-directional
> > better)
> > between databases on two unix (fedora core 8) systems.
> >
> > I would be grateful for suggestions & comments from anyone who has done
> > this.
> >
> > most of
> > http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_repl_tools seem
> > to be windows-based, which is no help to me.
> >
> > If it helps I'm trying to define a high-availability system backend
> > setup.
> > Current thoughts are to have two servers, and switch over when
> > necessary.
>
> the replicator doesn't have to sit on the same box(es) as the database
> service(s). You can utilise a third CPU and RAM for the replication
> process.
> Alan

I appreciate that you can do that but the aim to to avoid having a single
point of failure
what we want to do is have box A replicate to box B, so if A goes down B is
ready to use


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