Performing Manual Replications
Prerequisites:
- See Publishing Prerequisites for details.
- Replication targets must be enabled and added. See Enabling Replication for details.
- Content must exist in the publishing target folder.
- The publishing target must be published at least once. See Publishing within Administration for details.
There may be times when administrators want to replicate files without publishing content. Only administrators can perform manual replications to copy files without publishing. This action is only available in the Publishing System.
To perform a manual replication on a publishing target:
- Select the appropriate publishing target from the list, and click New
Publish in the top-right corner of the Manage Publishing
Targets pane.
- Select Replicate Only, and select one of the following
replication types:
- Select Standard to conducts a one-way replication of
all published items to the replication targets. NoteWhen running a standard replication, keep the following in mind:
- Standard replication type doesn't remove files. For example, if you execute a full publish, files that haven't been deleted from the replication source are not deleted from the replication target.
- Standard replication also executes when users publish content and perform replication in the Site Tree and Assets Tree.
- Select Clean to delete everything from the target
folder before starting replication. This type essentially wipes out all metadata
from the replication system.
For example, if IIS resets in the middle of replication and corrupts the data, you can perform a clean replication to ensure the integrity of all replicated files.
NoteOnly administrators can perform clean replication.
- Select Standard to conducts a one-way replication of
all published items to the replication targets.