[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Administration Questions

[Jason Etheridge]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Soulliere, Robert
<robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca> wrote:
> We try to avoid restarting the services during business hours, if at all possible, since it causes service interruptions. I don't think there is much danger of information loss, but others here with more knowledge could give a more sure answer.

However, if you set up a load balancing cluster of OpenSRF servers,
you could take a brick out of rotation and then restart its services
safely at that point.  You can even do most upgrades like that if they
don't involve database schema changes.

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