Bob Schroeck Wrote:...
Which reminds me... I need to establish procedure with you guys about moving a busy forum so that nothing gets lost or forgotten during the transition. I'll probably give notice when I'm going to move one, and lock it, and ask folks to hold off on posting in the new forums until the transfer is done.
Putting my "storage guy" hat on...
There are only two safe ways to do offsite replication.
One is to do it in real time - have changes on one side show up on the other immediately. That requires resources that we don't have and aren't likely to have; I strongly suspect Tapatalk won't run a continuous process that helps them lose customers.
The other - the one that we can actually do - is to lock both the source and the destination so that neither can be updated except by the migration script, then read the source and write it to the destination. In this case, "read the source" means "read the diff between what Brent has already captured and the live version", so we'll save some time there.
Anything else risks losing changes made to either the source or the destination while the destination is being populated.--
Rob Kelk
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