Re: [Mifos-developer] Sync ideas

[William P. <wi...@sc...>]

Steve Mushero wrote:
> If we really must sync HO to branches, then I suggest one of the ideas 
> I put forth last year as the easiest and simplest approach.  This is 
> essentially to sent snapshot data from branches to HO for each 
> client/account.  This means EVERY update contains a client and account 
> record, perhaps with some history, but no transactions.  Thus every 
> new update from a branch REPLACES existing data at HO, so it's no big 
> deal if a weekly or monthly update is lost or applied out of order. [...]
>
> Downside is no transactional data, but who needs that at HO?  I think 
> the process is simple enough to manage with the available skills and 
> it would work very nicely.

That sounds like a great compromise between shipping only the reports 
and trying to do bidirectional sync. It allows the home office some 
ability to do ad-hoc reporting, but still dodges the tricky parts about 
syncing.

For eventual nightly updates, I'm sure we could find an on-disk format 
that allows us to use simple tools like diff and patch to minimize 
bandwidth usage.

James, would that be sufficient for Grameen Koota?

William