[haiku-web] Re: Trac migration to AccountManager

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 21:22 +0200, Niels Reedijk wrote:
> Hi Curtis,
> 
> 2008/4/9, Curtis Wanner <katisu@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Axel wrote:
> >  > Yes, I do want that. If the databases are mirrored on different
> >  > servers, there is no dependency. You need to swap user data over the
> >  > internet anyway, it doesn't matter between which server that happens.
> >  > And the only way to make something really reliable, is by making it
> >  > redundant, not separate, anyway.
> >
> >
> > My understanding from an earlier explanation by Nielx (in response to a
> >  similar suggestion) is that the drupal and Trac "databases" are two 
> > entirely
> >  different set ups.  If it was a matter of simply mirroring databases, I
> >  would certainly be in full agreement.  That's not the case.
> 
> You are misinformed here. It is theoretically possible to have the
> www.haiku-os.org server send the user tables to the trac server, but
> it would mean designing a setup where there are two cron jobs (one on
> either server) to synchronize account data. This way we could 'trick'
> the Trac installation in that there still is a database of the web
> server available.

Is this theory feasible in practice, proven and reliable?

Cheers,

Koki


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