Preface
- Last Updated: February 12, 2026
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- OpenEdge
- Version 12.8
- Documentation
Purpose
This manual is an introduction to OpenEdge Data Replication. It describes the information that is required for planning a database replication and how to replicate database with OpenEdge.
Audience
This manual is for OpenEdge database administrators who want to perform data replication continuosly from a production database to one or two other database using AI files.
Organization
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Main steps for OpenEdge database replication
This section provides an introduction to OpenEdge Replication and the replication options available to the OpenEdge database administrator.
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This section describes how to plan for OpenEdge Replication. It helps you prepare your production environment for database replication. It also provides information about the decisions you need to make about how database replication should work, so that you can configure OpenEdge Replication accordingly.
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This section describes how to configure the OpenEdge Replication server by saving and then editing the sample source properties file. The sample source properties file is provided with OpenEdge Replication installation as part of OpenEdge.
Set Up OpenEdge Replication databases
This section describes how to enable online backups to run OpenEdge Replication.
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This section provides information about how to start the OpenEdge Replication after setting the source and target database.
Documentation conventions
See Documentation Conventions for an explanation of the terminology, format, and typographical conventions used throughout the OpenEdge content library.