Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual page 132

Defining a Replication Strategy
Each office contains a high-speed network, but you are using a dial-up connection
to network between the two cities. To balance your network load:
• Select one server in each office to be the supplier server for the locally
managed data.
Replicate locally managed data from that server to the corresponding
supplier server in the remote office.
• Replicate the directory tree on each supplier server (including data supplied
from the remote office) to at least one local Directory Server to ensure
availability of the directory data. You can use multi-master replication for the
suffix managed locally and cascading replication for the suffix that receives a
master copy of the data from a remote server.
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