In today’s world, organizations need to ensure that their data is protected against all kinds of loss such as hardware failures, user errors, database corruption, and natural or other disasters. One of the most important tasks you can perform is to backup and replicate your databases frequently. In this guide, first you will learn about what information goes into a database replication plan and then how to replicate with OpenEdge.

OpenEdge Replication is a process in which data is continuously replicated from a production database to one or two other databases using AI files. If the production database fails or is brought offline, then one of the other databases can temporarily become the production database to ensure availability of data access.

Replication eliminates the database as a single point of failure and minimizes business disruption.

In this guide, you will learn how to implement OpenEdge Replication.
Note: Progress also offers the OpenEdge Replication Plus option. OpenEdge Replication Plus allows you to run reporting (i.e., read-only) applications on the secondary replication databases, thus reducing the load on the primary, production database.

Guide objectives

When you complete this guide, you should be able to:
  • Create a replication plan.
  • Understand the differences between replication types.
  • Implement replication with OpenEdge.