OE Replication - Switch Target and Source Database

[gareth.roberts]

Is there an easier way to switch the target and source roles when running OE Replication?

Or is the only option to rebuild replication form scratch?

 

[TomBascom]

OE Replication is extremely delicate. Rebuilding from scratch is something that you better get good at.

It *is* possible to do a controlled fail-over, switch roles and then fail-back without rebuilding. But it is pretty complicated and easy to mess up. (And I don't have the steps at my finger-tips right now.)

Like all things replication related you really, really need to be on a very up to date release. OE Replication and ancient, obsolete & unsupported releases is a toxic combination.

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

There were a lot of Replication-related issues fixed in SP06 of 10.2B. If you're on 10.2B you should check the release notes.

 

[gareth.roberts]

Ok thanks guys, looks like I will be rebuilding it from scratch just wanted to check I wasn't missing a trick.

 

[AbhayShukla]

Hi All,

Just want to know that if i have a progress 10.2B database on a Solaris machine can we set up target DB on
a Linux or IBM AIX machine using OE Replication tool.

Thanks

Abhay.

 

[cj_brandt]

The source and target server machines for OpenEdge Replication must have:

A) The same Operating system (e.g. AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Windows) B) The same OpenEdge Installation (e.g. 32Bit or 64Bit OpenEdge editions) C) The same OpenEdge release (e.g. OpenEdge 10.1B Enterprise RDBMS) D) The same Big-Endian byte ordering format​

E) Replication between different Operating Systems on Little-Endian byte order systems are not supported at all due to OS limitations.​