Group,
Feel free flame away ;>P.I know little about Sybase.....I manage a small
medical group's
network.They use a Sybase database for their practice managment.I recently
provisioned a new "backup" server
for them. I copy the *.db file over to the new server every
night.I could, if a disaster occured, simply point all the clients
by way of mapped drive,after starting the Sybase engine on the new box,and
they would be back up and running at the point of the last backup.That is
adequate I guess,but I'd like a real time failover.I know less than zero
about Sybase,but is there a way to sync the two databases in real
time,erm,easily?(and not too expensively) I asked a consultant and he stated
he could do it for 990 bucks plus travel,and that it would take a full
day.Does this seem reasonable?Thanks,Adysthemic

Adysthemic wrote:
*shrug* For a (very) short term contract ... hopefully with a guarantee on
what he's providing ... as well as a little bit of training/explanation on
how to maintain his solution ... and the fact that you're not planning on
implementing a solution using Sybase's Replication Server product ...
sounds ok.

You could probably get one of us here on the forum to help out via
emails/IM-chats ... show you a few methods you can implement yourself ...
and we'd probably charge ya a bit less. ;-)

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Mark A. Parsons

Iron Horse, Inc.
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