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* replication.html
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* Authors: Chad Berkley
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* Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the
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* National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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* For Details: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/
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* Created: 2001 January 23
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<HTML>
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<TITLE>Metacat</TITLE>
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<table width="100%">
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Replication</p></td>
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<a href="./packages.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a> |
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<p>Metacat has built in replication to allow different Metacat servers to
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share data between themselves. The replication scheme that Metacat uses is
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both push and pull. There are several triggers that can start a replication
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mechanism. </p>
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<ul>
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<li>Delta-T monitoring. At a set time interval a server checks each of the
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other servers in its list for updated documents</li>
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<li>INSERT trigger. Whenever a document is inserted, the server notifies
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the remote hosts in its list that it has a new file available.</li>
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<li>UPDATE trigger. Whenever a document is updated, the server notifies
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each server in its list of the update.</li>
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<li>File locking. When a local user tries to alter a document on a local
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server that belongs to a remote server, the local server must first
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obtain a lock on that file. Once the lock is obtained, the file can
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be updated, then it is force replicated out to each server in the list.
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The lock ensures that the remote copy is up to date and that an older
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file does not overwrite a newer one. Only a documents home server
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can give a lock for that file to be altered.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Each server contains a list of servers to which it can replicate. One-way
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replication is enabled by the 'replicate' flag in the list. The server list
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may look like the following.</p>
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<table border="1">
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<td><b>serverid</b></td>
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<td><b>server</b></td>
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<td><b>last_checked</b></td>
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<td><b>replicate</b></td>
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<td>1</td>
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<td>localhost</td>
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<td>null</td>
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<td>0</td>
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<td>2</td>
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<td>alpha.nceas.ucsb.edu:8080/berkley/servlet/replication</td>
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<td>2001-01-22 14:52:12.1</td>
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<td>1</td>
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<td>3</td>
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<td>dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/Metacat/servlet/replication</td>
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<td>2001-01-23 9:10:02.5</td>
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<td>1</td>
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<p>The server list is kept in a table in the database called xml_replication.
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Localhost must always be the first entry in the table and have a serverid of 1.
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The server field must always point to the other server's replication servlet,
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hence the servlet/replication on the end of both of the sample servers. Note
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that any port numbers (if your servlet engine is not running on port 80) must
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also be included. The replicate flag is set to 1 if you want this server to
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copy data TO the remote host. (Note that both servers (the local host and
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the remote host) must have each other in their respective tables or replication
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will not take place.)</p>
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<b>Example:</b>
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<td>host</td>
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<td>replication table</td>
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<td>snoopy.nceas.ucsb.edu</td>
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<table border="2">
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<td><b>server</b></td>
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<td><b>last_checked</b></td>
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<td><b>replicate</b></td>
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<td>localhost</td>
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<td>null</td>
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<td>0</td>
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<td>alpha.nceas.ucsb.edu:8080/berkley/servlet/replication </td>
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<td>2001-01-22 14:52:12.1</td>
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<td>1</td>
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<td>dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/Metacat/servlet/replication</td>
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<td>2001-01-23 9:10:02.5</td>
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<td>1</td>
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<td>alpha.nceas.ucsb.edu</td>
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<td><b>server</b></td>
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<td><b>last_checked</b></td>
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<td><b>replicate</b></td>
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<td>localhost</td>
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<td>0</td>
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<td>snoopy.nceas.ucsb.edu:8080/berkley/servlet/replication</td>
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<td>2001-01-21 11:33:12.7</td>
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<td>0</td>
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<td>dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/Metacat/servlet/replication</td>
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<td>2001-01-23 10:22:02.5</td>
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<td>1</td>
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<td>dev.nceas.ucsb.edu</td>
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<td><b>server</b></td>
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<td><b>last_checked</b></td>
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<td><b>replicate</b></td>
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<td>localhost</td>
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<td>snoopy.nceas.ucsb.edu:8080/berkley/servlet/replication</td>
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<td>2001-01-21 11:33:12.7</td>
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<td>0</td>
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<td>alpha.nceas.ucsb.edu:8080/Metacat/servlet/replication</td>
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<td>2001-01-22 12:15:32.5</td>
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<td>1</td>
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<p>Our three servers, snoopy, alpha and dev are all set up to replicate
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between themselves. Snoopy is a one way replicator. Meaning that it only
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pushes data to alpha and dev but does not pull back from them. This
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is achieved by dev and alpha setting snoopy's 'replicate' value to 0 indicating
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that they do not want to send their files to snoopy. Alpha and dev have a
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two-way replication agreement since each of them have a 1 in their 'replicate'
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value for the other.</p>
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<p>There is an html control panel for controling replication. After
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<a href="./Metacatinstall.html">installing</a> Metacat, you can access
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it by going through the Metacat servlet context you have setup and calling up
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replControl.html. For instance, if you setup a Metacat servlet instance
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called 'Metacat' you would probably type
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http://server.domain.com:8080/Metacat/replControl.html. The control panel
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is an easy interface for adding/removing/altering servers and starting the
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delta-T handler. It will also allow you to 'force replicate' your server list.
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This is useful if you want to initialize the state of one Metacat server
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from an existing state of another (i.e. copy all of the data from an existing
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server).</p>
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