On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Aaron Huslage <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a strange problem that I'm hoping someone either has dealt with or > has ideas about solving. > > We have developed a medical records system as a CouchApp that allows > clinicians in remote areas to submit medical records to a local server. > These records need to be replicated back to a central office for reporting > purposes. > > These remote clinics are completely disconnected from the Internet and > connect to one another over HF Radio (think ham radio back in the day). The > radio links are not really reliable or quick enough for PPP to work well, > so we are using UUCP instead of IP. > > In this scenario, there is no interactive communication between nodes. > Everything is batch file copies. I need a way to do a CouchDB replication > using only file transfers and cron/inotify jobs. > How would you do your file transfer? Other than that you could listen on couchdb changes and rsync your databases files between nodes. Eventually you could also write a replicator over UUCP.
