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

  • Main steps for OpenEdge database replication

    This section provides an introduction to OpenEdge Replication and the replication options available to the OpenEdge database administrator.

  • Plan for OpenEdge Replication

    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.

  • Configure the property files

    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.

  • Start the replication

    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.