Automating replication
The initial creation and transport of a replica is done manually, probably in off hours. The subsequent synchronization process is automated to run as a fairly continuous background process. It is typical to replicate every 15-30 minutes between sites.
The MultiSite administration commands are done from a command line interface. To set up automated replication, create or use existing scripts that run from a scheduler. ClearCase includes a scheduler but any scheduling mechanism is fine. For example, the UNIX cron scheduler is still commonly used.
Replication tasks
In this section we describe the processes that you have to automate.
The ClearCase scheduler includes Perl scripts for many of these operations in the task library ...
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