Mirrored database

[Richard Kreiss]

I have one computer in our communities Office with a filePro database application - single user runtime license.  A second computer is in our gatehouse with a single user runtime license

I have two choices of how to configure this.

Both computers are on the same network:


1.      Network the Gatehouse computer to a share on the office computer - point to its local license

2.      Setup the files to be mirrored and have the gatehouse computer access the database locally.

Office is open 9AM-3PM
Gatehouse - 9 PM to 5 AM.

In either case one of the computers will have be left running.

Note: during the summer the gatehouse does get hot prior to the guard coming on duty.  We have the air conditioning set to 80 degrees when the guard isn't there.  The office is always air-conditioned.

The gatehouse only does an inquiry while the office machine would be updating data.

Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages.

I am interested in hearing which approach you all think would be best.

As an aside, the gatehouse computer's hard drive locked up but once I removed it and brought it to my office, the drive worked.  I installed a 250GB SSD as the primary drive as the database is relatively small.  The 1TB internal drive is now a secondary drive but I don't trust it to continue working.  The SSD should handle the heat better.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting









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