A replication configuration contains the information that is required to run the InitialSync, Extractor, and Applier tasks to materialize targets or replicate changes to targets.
A configuration includes the following types of information:
Connection information for the source and target databases
The source and target tables selected for change data replication or target materialization
Mappings between source and target tables
Mappings between source and target columns
Column-filtering conditions
Locations of the InitialSync, Extractor, and Applier executables and the Extractor output directory
Various runtime and advanced configuration settings
You can use the Data Replication Console to create replication configurations. The Console guides you through the replication creation process, lists valid options, and validates some entries.
The Data Replication Console stores configurations as SQLite .db files on the system where the Server Manager Main server runs. Each configuration has an owner that is specified when the configuration is created.
If you use the Replication Configuration Command Line Interface (CLI) to update a configuration, export the configuration as an XML file from the Data Replication Console to save your changes. From the
Server Manager
Configs
view, click the
Export
icon button on the Replication Configurations toolbar.
You can run the replication tasks with configurations that are stored in an XML or SQLite .db configuration file.
The config.xsd file is an XML schema file that defines the format of the XML configuration. Do not edit this schema file.
For the SQLite .db configurations, Data Replication stores all revisions of the configuration.