Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news.netplace.de!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeed.siemens.de!news.pdb.sbs.de!nntp.fujitsu-siemens.com!not-for-mail From: "Volker Hetzer" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Multi-Master Replication over an air-gap Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:40:27 +0100 Organization: Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <5ddf960e.0312111124.2e8d770e@posting.google.com> <3fd993e5$0$9386$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: abg0752c.abg.fsc.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.fujitsu-siemens.com 1071225628 2301 141.29.58.180 (12 Dec 2003 10:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@sbs.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:40:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:249959 "Niall Litchfield" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3fd993e5$0$9386$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net... > I must be missing something here. If the 'security restrictions' mean that > you cannot connect the two databases via an appropriate dblink then surely > they prevent you just walking out of the server room with the data on disk. Rational or not but here we have a similar requirement. No office pc or any other computer can be connected to the LAN *and* to the internet via some other way (like an analogue modem). Or to another computer that is. However, it is permitted to have two computers sitting side by side and swap floppies. I'm very happy to have gotten one exception: I'm permitted to use a keyboard switch. > Surely there is something wrong with a business requirement that says these > two databases must be synchronized and *at the same time* these two > databases cannot be allowed to communicate. My problem is, what happens when that guy wants to do a switchover? Lots of Greetings! Volker