On Aug 25, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> I keep looking at CouchDB and thinking this should be perfect for  
> what we're doing, but the details of replication are really sketchy.

Ouch :)  I'll try to get around to writing a solid wiki article on  
replication before the next release.  In the meantime check out

http://books.couchdb.org/relax/reference/replication

Cheers, Adam