Domino System Administration

Creating New Replicas

In the preceding bullet list, one of the recommendations was to minimize the number of replicas of a database in order to minimize the opportunity for replication conflicts and to minimize the demand that replication makes on a network. The implication of that recommendation is that replicas are bad. But that would be an unwarranted conclusion. Within reason, creating replicas of databases is a good thing. The benefits of adding new replicas of a database include the following:

• You distribute the load of a heavily used database across more servers, improving server performance in the process.

• You can localize network traffic and make data more available to remote users by putting replicas of databases on servers that are ...