[Koha-devel] RE: RE: RE: Hello

[Nicholas Rosasco]

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




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> From: Karen Littlefield [mailto:klittle at mid-del.k12.ok.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:14 PM
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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.
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> Karen Littlefield
> klittle at mid-del.k12.ok.us
> Mid Del Schools
> Midwest City, OK 73110
> 405-737-4461 x294
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