Special considerations for replicated VOBs

When relocating elements from one replicated VOB to another, observe the following rules and guidelines:

• Elements to be relocated must be mastered in the current replica and inactive at all replica sites.
• You must replicate the target VOB at each site that includes the source VOB. Relocate elements from VOB1 replica to VOB2 at local site; then replicate VOB2 at each VOB1 replica site. After a relocate operation at site A, cross-VOB hyperlinks will "dangle" at site B's replica if either site B does not include a replica of the target VOB used at site A, or site B has not been updated by a syncreplica operation since the relocate operation at site A.
• You must coordinate the relocate operation with the administrators of all of the VOB's replicas. For example, if replica A is locked for relocate, and a checkin happens at replica B in the meantime, that checkin is lost to replica A.
• Metadata types must be mastered at the local replica before the relocate command is run. This is required in order for a relocated element to be successfully re-created with its associated metadata at a remote replica.
• You may need to adjust mastership for metadata type objects. When relocate copies them to the target VOB, it creates them with local mastership.