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- Marc Andreessen wrote:
-
- > Also, is there any way to specify backup servers? Does anyone else
- > think this would be useful?
-
- After the problems with info.cern.ch, I'd say yes, it would be useful.
- The main problems I see:
-
- a) If the backup is done in the document, the HTML format would need
- to change. I'll leave this issue to others.
-
- b) Keeping the data up-to-date, and consistent could be difficult. For
- example, all documents must be relatively addressed to be able to move
- them between systems. This is not always possible, for example, if
- different ``schemes'' are used, or if different ports are used on the
- same machine, then I believe the whole machine name needs to be
- respecified. This problem could be partially solved by doing a
- ``search-and-replace'' on all addresses as the document is moved.
-
- One possible way to implement backups is to have the client do it (makes
- the client too clever?). The client could have a list of hosts, and for
- each one, have a list of backup servers, to try if the main server is
- down. The problem with this is that the list is much more difficult
- to maintain, if everyone needs a copy, and only the clients that have
- implemented this would benefit.
-
- Just some random thoughts,
- rik.
-