Re: server iteration

[Tod Oace]

On May 20, 2005, at 02:10, Alexander Jolk wrote:

> > Does anyone use the server= iteration? I'm not seeing how it would  
> > be  used the way it currently works. Changing it to stop at the  
> > first  successful server seems much more useful to me.
>
> I'm not using it, but have you thought of combining this with  
> SingleCopy?  That might just do what you need.

An interesting idea, but I would still have to double my quantity of  
copy statements, yes? One set for the primary server and a second for  
the alternate. Or am I misunderstanding?

> As an aside, I'm actually choosing one server out of a pool of  
> three using a strategy.  That gives me load balancing and failover,  
> but only on a longer timescale.

I hadn't really looked at strategies: before. That doesn't seem like  
what I want for failover as I want machines to try their closest  
server first, but I may find some other use. Thanks!

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