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[Chris Hyzer <>]

We haven't been trying not to write to the DB, so its probably safer to do a 
cold standby.  However, if you don't have anything automatically creating 
objects in the grouper.properties:

configuration.autocreate.*

Then I cant think of anything that would write to the DB, though again we 
don't have a contract for this...  :)  If it is important for you, we could 
discuss this at the next dev call next week.

Thanks,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Zandbelt 
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> Subject: [grouper-users] does grouper write to its database at startup?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are creating a failover setup for our grouper service by
> setting up a "hot standby" grouper (failover/slave) server instance
> next to the running grouper master instance.
> 
> The database of the failover instance in this setup is replicated
> from the master instance and should not be written to by until the
> server is promoted to master in case of failure.
> 
> My question is: does any of the grouper components (cq. the
> grouper-ws, grouper-api or grouper GUI) write to its database
> at startup time, ie. before any "external" interaction takes place?
> 
> If it does not do so, we can indeed ensure a fast failover by having a
> "hot standby" Grouper instance. If it does, we would have to change
> our setup to a "cold standby",
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans.
> 
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