Replication on the same Server

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Hello,

I want to replicate a Database on the same Server. But DB2 is only allowed to pull from DB1, not to push.

Is that possible?

In Release 5 it wasn’t.

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Subject: Replication on the same Server

i don’t know if this works 100% but you can try a button or an agent with

flag = notesDatabase.Replicate( serverName$ )

→ where serverName$ = notesDatabase.Server

if you use this function on a client (like a button) it works but you must have enough rights to do this to replicate all documents and designelements …

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Subject: RE: Replication on the same Server

Hi,

I’ve done this one time before. It is highly undocumented and I’m NOT recommending it though it worked for me.

  • Create a connection document from the server to itself WITHOUT enabling the scheduler.

  • Create the replica locally OUTSIDE the Domino data directory eg. d:\backupDB

  • Enter the following command:

repl server/org d:\backupDB\database.nsf

This way the database is located outside the Domino data directory and therefore it will not reside within the servers cache and do harm.

But once again; I’s unsupported and I did it as a last way out (making a new replica of a 20GB DB without transferring all the data over the internet connection).

Good luck!

Regards,

Morten Schaumann

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Subject: Replication on the same Server

ooooh nooo ! donot use more replicas on one server. You don’t have any control over the replication and nevertheless it isn’t supported.

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Subject: RE: Replication on the same Server

Thanks.Is there really no chance? I cannot buy me an new server for only one database!

And the replica is needed as an security factor!

Any way???