Forum Post: RE: Reverting Source DB to Replication Target

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Paul Koufalis

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To get a copy of the tgt back on the primary server, just backup, transfer and restore. The restored DB on the primary server will be enabled as a replication tgt so disable it using proutil db -C disablesitereplication target. Then you'll have to go through the whole resync process. The better option would have been to have configured and tested failover + fail back. You could have started up production on the secondary server, then when the primary was back online, started replicating back to the primary (primary would be the tgt). Eventually, with a down time of just a few minutes, you could have reversed the roles back to the normal prod/primary and DR/secondary.

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