thanks for the honest reply - I'm more concerned now, but much better informed :-)
On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 4:23:01 PM UTC, Jeremy Kelley wrote: > > Tim, > > I asked a similar question months ago and the question went unanswered. > > I was informed by a couchbase employee over drinks that the documentation > for shadowing had been silently removed. That's all I was told about the > future of the product. > > Because of this ambiguity, we actually decided to move away from couchbase > lite and sync gateway for our product. I don't know for certain that > shadow buckets are going away, but the future of shadowing seemed tenuous > enough that we didn't want to take the risk. > > -jeremy > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:19 AM Tim Clarke <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Is bucket shadowing still supported in Sync Gateway v1.1.1 and where do I >> find the documentation? The "shadow" setting no longer appears in the >> config.json documentation, and this link >> <http://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/mobile/current/develop/guides/sync-gateway/wcbs/bucket-shadowing/index.html> >> >> no longer works (previous mentioned by Jens Alfke in this post >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mobile-couchbase/m0j0VRfQfTQ/SaVrrcqRDAAJ> >> ) >> >> We have two couchbase servers sharing a bucket. A CMS publishes to the >> bucket, then this is shadowed to another bucket that sync gateway uses with >> pull replication from mobile clients. This is all done by using snippets of >> config.json found in various forum posts. >> >> Sync Gateway is on both servers and load balanced, but I'm concerned that >> only one node can run the shadowing otherwise problems occur. It seems like >> the best practice is to use multiple nodes for resilience, but then we're >> forced to only have one server running shadowing which is a single-point-of >> failure. >> >> What's more concerning is I can't find documentation on the shadow >> feature, so is it being dropped? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Couchbase Mobile" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/8bd98f7f-bef8-47ff-aee1-95710c591c67%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/8bd98f7f-bef8-47ff-aee1-95710c591c67%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/1867a160-83e2-4d72-aab3-529ffc01664e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
