Re: Replication To Avoid Corruption???

#1 (**permalink**) 27-Oct-2005, 08:59 AM

FerryMary wrote:

>Everything sounds so dramatic with this program.

>
>The Intranet my crowd is using is sluggish to say the least. I've used all
>the tips and tricks to speed performance (Thank you Tony) and the Performance
>Analyzer has no suggestions. The Intranet is dial-up, really slow, with high
>traffic. After it became apparent that the connection speed was my problem
>and after making my backup, I replicated the back-end, created replica for
>one of my sites and the synchronization works fine. Although it takes about 2
>minutes. (It's amazing how impatient I am when it comes to computers,,,,2
>minutes is nothing to wait for a pop-tart) Obviously the preferred situation
>would be immediate updates between facilities. But considering the
>inconsistent connection, going off-line is the norm, it seemed Replication
>was a better choice. Is this reasoning sound?

I forget the exact term but Michka has stated that you always want to
use offline synchronization if there's a chance the connection will
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/information-technology/5924-re-replication-to-avoid-corruption.html
fail as such have a high rate of corruptions.

However I'm a bit confused when you state Intranet dialup. Intranet
is usually a term for web pages. Are you running an Access FE at the
other end of the dial-up connection or a web browser?

>Currently I am using a manual synchronization from
>Tools>Replication>Synchronize Now. Is it best to manually synchronize or
>should I have it scheduled and if so,,,where do I find step by steps to set
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=5924
>the schedule?

I'd suggest visiting www.trigeminal.com to see if Michka has anything
to say on that topic. And/or visit the replication newsgroup.

Tony
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