Plan for Enterprise Replication

Before you design a replication system, you must understand how Enterprise Replication interacts with the database server and the other requirements of Enterprise Replication. Many aspects of the Informix® database server can affect how you deploy Enterprise Replication.

Enterprise Replication Server administrator
You need special privileges to run most Enterprise Replication commands.
Asynchronous propagation conflicts
Enterprise Replication asynchronously propagates many control operations through the Enterprise Replication network. Avoid operations that might conflict during propagation.
Back up and restore of replication servers
You can back up and restore database servers that participate in Enterprise Replication.
Compression of replicated data
You can compress and uncompress data in replicated tables to reduce the amount of needed disk space.
Transaction processing impact
Many variables affect the impact that replicating data has on your transaction processing.
SQL statements and replication
You can run most SQL statements while replication is active. For some statements, however, you must set alter mode or stop replication.
Global language support for replication
You can replicate data in non-default locales.
Replication between multiple server versions
You can set up Enterprise Replication across servers of different version levels.

Parent topic: Planning and designing for Enterprise Replication