John Sidney-Woollett <johnsw at wardbrook.com> writes:
> Thanks for the info - that explains my problem.
>
> You're right about more testing offline but that isn't an option for
> us right now.
>
> At least it is now replicating. In fact it's performing excellently -
> what a really great piece of software!
>
> I will investigate failover and promotion soon (before I have to do it
> for real!).

You might take a peek at the URLs below; that's a fairly late-breaking
copy of the "admin guide" that's in CVS HEAD.

You might want to browse through the first two documents before trying
to get too far...
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