Re: Server Mirroring

2017-03-22 Thread Cannon Smith via 4D_Tech
Hi Jeff, Thanks for the advice. I appreciate it! -- Cannon.Smith Synergy Farm Solutions Inc. Hill Spring, AB Canada 403-626-3236 > On Mar 22, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Jeffrey Kain via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > We run a mirror here -- soon to be several mirrors. Overall it works g

Re: Server Mirroring

2017-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Kain via 4D_Tech
We run a mirror here -- soon to be several mirrors. Overall it works great. There's practically zero overhead in the "New Log File" command (milliseconds). My only advice would be to make the transfer of the logs happen outside of 4D. Write a script in Python or PowerShell to handle the moving o

Re: Server Mirroring

2017-03-22 Thread Paul Dennis via 4D_Tech
integrate the log file. Paul -- View this message in context: http://4d.1045681.n5.nabble.com/Re-Server-Mirroring-tp5750849p5750870.html Sent from the 4D Tech mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG

Re: Server Mirroring

2017-03-21 Thread Cannon Smith via 4D_Tech
Hi Jody, Good to hear from you! It doesn’t sound like you are very retired. :-) Thanks for sharing your experiences. I know mirroring changed significantly in v14, but I’ll definitely be working directly on the server’s drives and then transporting them after the writing is done. Thanks. -- C

Re: Server Mirroring

2017-03-21 Thread G-Mail via 4D_Tech
Cannon: We used mirroring extensively last with version 12 (before I ‘retired’). We used it at many of our sites since mirroring was first available (can’t remember which version that was). Of course now we are on v16 so things will likely have changed. We will be implementing mirroring with t

Re: Server Mirroring

2017-03-21 Thread Cannon Smith via 4D_Tech
Hi Paul, I’m just working out how to do this theoretically at the moment. But, no, they won’t be on the same local network. I want them geographically diverse. And I think I want an additional place (FTP site) that is away from both of them to keep a copy of each log file in case the mirror can

Server Mirroring

2017-03-20 Thread Cannon Smith via 4D_Tech
I’m looking into the idea of setting up a mirrored server. One one hand I want to be pretty aggressive about sending log files to the mirror—probably every couple of minutes. On the other hand, I don’t want to use “New log file” and then send the log file if nothing has changed. Has anyone done