You are _very_ on track. I'm a little confused... do you mean Koha was created to work easily over phone lines. Our feedback indicates that the telnet based circulation system is better for phonelines (versus the web circ. system) as far as response time goes. Modems for linking patron stations catalog searching works fine. If you can't afford any downtime, you could follow the route taken by one of our Sites. MySQL has support for replicating servers -- makes it pretty easy to set up a hotswappable server. It would require a second machine to replicate to... we can point you to info on how to accomplish that. Network and dial-in reliability issues are really rather beyond my scope :) past that point. Anything else I can answer? Nick

-----Original Message----- From: Karen Littlefield [mailto:klittle@mid-del.k12.ok.us] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:14 PM To: nsr@etome.net Subject: Re: RE: RE: Hello

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SOOOO I get from your last communication that we would be choosing to export all data from our existing system to the Koha system and would be running it with the entire database residing on a district server across our WAN. Installation would be Unix in format and our only obligation would be to provide the server and management of the database. Am I on track? I know we have some issues related to MARC but we have been working on that issue for a couple of years and the cleanup is happening. Our tech support coordinator is UNIX wise and I'm sure could handle the loading process. I guess my next question is the quality of service across the WAN. Having the library down is NOT good.

Karen Littlefield klittle@mid-del.k12.ok.us Mid Del Schools Midwest City, OK 73110 405-737-4461 x294