If you're using a passthru server or a network (remote LAN) server, you can have Notes make a single call and replicate all your local databases at one time, even if they're on different servers.
When your connection to Notes is over a telephone line, you can have Notes call each server you want to replicate with automatically. Tip You can get to the Replication menu for a database in several ways: from the File menu while the database is open, by right-clicking a database's bookmark, or by right-clicking a database entry on the Replicator page (entries are created the first time a database replicates). You can schedule replication, or do it manually as needed, with different schedules for each location from which you use Notes. The Replicator page displays all your replicas and helps you manage replication. For more information, see Adding and removing replicas from your bookmarks. You can use the bookmarks to see all replicas for a database that you have opened, and to discover replicas that you haven't. If you want to create a replica of a server-based database on a different server, ask your Domino administrator for assistance. Most of the replicas you work with will be local to your own computer. In a matter of seconds, your local mail can be current with the mail database on the server. Many Lotus Notes mail users have optimized their mail experience by accessing a local replica of their mail instead of on the IBM Lotus Domino server. Improve your mail experience through the use of managed mail replicas. Replication also lets users on various networks in a variety of (physical) locations share the most current version of information in a database.Įach time you replicate your mail database, for example, Notes receives new mail in your local replica, and sends any outgoing mail, as well as any recent changes to your mail such as documents you filed in folders, to the server. What's new in Lotus Notes 8.5.2 software. Replication is a great tool to have when you're away from your office network, because working in a local replica is much faster than making the same changes over a dialup telephone connection.
A copy of a database file created through the operating system is a replica and does have the same ID number as the original database. A database copy (created by choosing File - Database - New Copy) does not have the same ID number as its original database, and doesn't replicate. Note Notes uses the replica ID number to locate and replicate all replicas of a database. Replication is the process of making replicas identical. Through replication, Notes can keep a local replica identical with the database on the server, so you make changes once, but they appear in both places. Notes lets you create a local (offline) replica of any database you use. Replication: the secret to working offlineĪ replica is a duplicate of a database with the same replication ID number as the original database.