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large databases to a reasonably limited number of slave systems.
Slony-I is a system for data centers and backup sites, where the
-normal mode of operation is that all nodes are available.
+normal mode of operation is that all nodes are available, and where
+systems may be expected to be managed in a reasonably disciplined
+fashion.
1. Build and install
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See the SAMPLE file nearby
+ There is also a "test" directory in the source tree which contains
+ a variety of regression tests. Looking at how they work may also
+ be helpful.
+
3. Help! I ran into a problem.
The file in the documentation area named "helpitsbroken.txt"
contains a variety of notes describing problems that people have
- run into in setting up Slony-I instances.
+ run into in setting up Slony-I instances. This has been extended
+ into a full scale FAQ.
It may be worth checking there to see if the problem you are
having has already been documented and diagnosed by someone else.
+ There is an extensive "administrative guide" in the documentation
+ tree that includes manual pages for binaries and for the Slonik
+ language, as well as overviews of various aspects of how Slony-I
+ works and should be used, including a "Best Practices" document
+ that distills some of the hard-learned lessons and a FAQ.
+
+ This "admin guide" may be found online at:
+ <http://linuxdatabases.info/info/slony.html>
+
You may also wish to contact the Slony-I mailing list, findable at
<http://slony.info/>. or take a peek at who might be available to chat
on the IRC channel #slony on freenode.net.
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