Question Second Replication Target?

[Cringer]

I've posted this over on the Progress Community, but just in case anyone who doesn't read there can help, I understand it's possible to replicate Progress to 2 servers. Can anyone point me in the right direction of what I need to do to configure a second target? We currently replicate to a single target without problems on 11.2.1, but need to have a second for a while.

 

[gareth.roberts]

Essentially you just add a second agent to you source.repl.properties file and set up as normal, form the documentation (OpenEdge Replication User Guide):

# OpenEdge Replication properties file for a database that will be used
# as a source database for OpenEdge Replication. This is a two agent
# configuration.
[server]
control-agents=agent1, agent2
database=your source db name
transition=manual
transition-timeout=1200
[control-agent.agent1]
name=agent1
database=your target db name
host=yourhost
port=your port or service name
connect-timeout=120
replication-method=async
critical=0
[control-agent.agent2]
name=agent2
database=your target db name
host=yourhost
port=your port or service name
connect-timeout=120
replication-method=async
critical=0

 

[Cringer]

Thanks gareth. Do I need to stop and start replication on the server once it's all configured?
I'm thinking the process would be something along these lines?
Change config files.
Stop replication on server and target.
Take replication backup from server.
Restore backup to new secondary replication target.
Enable replication on both targets.
Enable replication on the source.

Would that be about right?

 

[gareth.roberts]

It has been a while since I last did it but that does sound about right.

 

[Cringer]

Good stuff. Thanks gareth.