Stephanie,
Multisite mostly buys performance (local vs remote). It also gives
both sites distinct (branches) sand boxes to play in. That way they
don't over-write or mess up each others code. Another thing, and this
has saved us several times, you actually end up with multiple copies
of the same vob (automatic, regular updates - we sync every 30 min,
reliable) so you have a off-site backup if one of the vobs gets hosed.
At least you have the option to restore from backup or make a new
replica. We had corrupted backups once and if we wouldn't have had
replicas we would have lost everything.
Ken Creager
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Ericsson Wireless Communications
San Diego, California
Senior Engineer
Clearcase Technical Lead
K.Creager@ericsson.com
(858) 332-5599 wk
(858) 332-7468 fax
(619) 890-8313 cell
At 1/28/00 11:21 AM -0500, Stephanie Farrell wrote:
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>We're starting to implement MultiSite to communicate with a partner we're
>working in parallel with and the question has popped up - what exactly does
>MultiSite buy us that we couldn't achieve by letting our partner use a
>ClearCase client to connect directly to our ClearCase server?
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>Going through the doc we get a feeling of better security and that if our
>partner was doing a large amount of work, the network access time is better
>for them since they'll be working with a local server and only communicating
>with our site occasionally. Are there any other things that MultiSite buys
>us?
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>Thanks!
>Stephanie
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