Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-11 Thread Rich Wales
Earlier, I wrote: >> What do I need to do in order for changes made on the replica >> to get copied over to the master? Bron Gondwana replied: > Impossible. You don't do this. What you can do (the simple > case of what we do) is set up two Cyrus instances on each > machine, replicating to each

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

2007-11-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:09:53PM -0800, Rich Wales wrote: > After about a week of having synchronization running perfectly in my > 2.3.9 system, I finally got another bailout incident with sync_client > on my master server. > > This happened just after I shut down my replica server (to move it t

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

2007-11-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:51:15PM -0800, Rich Wales wrote: > I'm using replication on a 2.3.9 system. > > I know that if changes happen on the master system, they are propagated > automatically to the replica system. > > But what happens if I make a change on the replica (e.g., by setting up > a

Skiplist stuff

2007-11-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 02:31:45PM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: > * the one buggy skiplist I actually still have a copy of, the "logstart" > value in the header is wrong, causing recovery to fail with only a few > of the records still reachable because it hits another INORDER record > rather t

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-11 Thread Reko Turja
Subject: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system? > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Gary Mills wrote: > >> We have a moderate-sized Cyrus system for 30,000 students and 3000 >> employees. It's a critical service in the sense that thousands of >> people depend on it. It has excellent performance, lots o