Re: Replication (ER) confusion

In article <5sen31$8da$1@aichan.swb.de>, Christian Balzer <cb@aichan.swb.de> writes >Hello, > >I read the fine manual (Dynamic Server 7.2), looked at the nice IIUG FAQ, >stared at the marketing talk on the Informix homepage and still am >no wiser... > >The manual and all references I found so far define the replication >as a strict 2 machine setup, one master and one slave. >And while the first paragraph on the Informix page also mentions >this the rest talks also about one master and multiple read-only >slaves (which is what I might eventually want/need). > >So what _is_ Enterprise Replication and am I right in suspecting >that the setup with multiple slaves is not like that what is >mentioned in single slave replication section in the manual? > >Advance thanks for answers or pointers, > ><CB> The one with one master and one slave is HDR (High Availablitiy Data Repliation?). ER (Enterprise Replication) is something different. -- David Williams