Permanent continuous replication with CouchDB across reboots

Question

How can I set up continuous replication after reboot? Continuous replication works only until the next reboot.

Answer 1

Continuous replication was not postponed to 1.3, it is available as of 1.1. As Dominic said, you use the _replicator database. Stick a doc in there like:

{
    "_id": "my_rep",
    "source":  "http://myserver.com:5984/foo",
    "target":  "bar",
    "create_target":  true,
    "continuous": true
}

For detailed documentation look here: https://gist.github.com/832610

Answer 2

Unfortunately, you still need to trigger the continuous replication after a server restart.

However, I asked this question on IRC, and it turns out that v1.1 of CouchDB will most likely include a special database called _replicator that will store replication settings. That way, they will remain even after a server restart.