> >Dear Group,
> >I'm asking Your help about the sitatuion I will try to show You
> very quickly:
> >
> >a) SERVER with a GLOBAL DATABASE.
> >
> >b) CLIENTS in other places with each one a PART of the GLOBAL DATABASE.
> >(no connection to the GLOBAL DATABASE during the normal operation of the
> >clients).
> >
> >c) Each clients has to be syncronized with the GLOBAL database
> sending all
> >the modified information on the clients and retrieving only the ones for
> >the clients itself. Connection to be made for example one a day.
> >
> >Hope is clear. Any simple suggestion?
>
> Simple? No. The process you are describing is replication and it is not
> simple.
>
>
> >SYBASE has some particular routines that do this, but I'm
> normally making
> >my study tests with IBO.
>
> Sybase ships with a replication server. For Firebird and InterBase you
> either purchase a replication product (such as IBReplicator) or you "roll
> your own".
>
> There are some white papers by Vince Duggan (one of the original
> authors of
> IBReplicator) here, which will help you to understand the component parts
> of a replication system:
>
> http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_replicator
>
> IBO has its own components for building a one-way replication
> service. For
> two-way replication, one would build two services - one to replicate
> changes from your satellite databases to the global one and another to
> collect all of the changes and replicate those back to the
> satellites. There is on-line help describing the mechanics of this, here:
>
> http://www.ibobjects.com/iborpl.html
>
> It's recommended that you really get your head around the issues involved
> in building databases that can be synchronised, before you set
> out to build
> a replication service. Unique keys for tables, for example, are a major
> issue...
>
> If Alan McDonald is watching, he will be able to direct you to another
> replicator project - open source, I think - that he revived last year.
>
>
> >I'm still using IBO 4.2Ie. (Not yer tried new version 4.5 Ai)
>
> I don't think IBO_RPL has changed since IBO 4.2.
>
> Helen

yes - ibphoenix.com has a list of replication offerings. The one I revived
provides for 2-way replication and will do what you are describing but the
emphasis is correct here.. i.e. you need to study your design very closely
before you commit to it such that replication will do as you expect.
Alan