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In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
Enterprise Replication
The HCL® Informix® Enterprise Replication Guide describes the concepts of data replication using Informix Enterprise Replication, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
About Enterprise Replication
Informix® Enterprise Replication generates and manages multiple copies of data at one or more sites, which allows an enterprise to share corporate data throughout its organization.
HCL Informix® Enterprise Replication technical overview
Informix® Enterprise Replication is an asynchronous, log-based tool for replicating data between HCL Informix database servers. Enterprise Replication on the source server captures transactions to be replicated by reading the logical log, storing the transactions, and reliably transmitting each transaction as replication data to the target servers.
Flexible Architecture
Enterprise Replication allows replications based on specific business and application requirements and does not impose model or methodology restrictions on the enterprise.

Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
- System administration
  These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
- Backup and Restore Guide
  The Informix® Backup and Restore Guide describes how to use the Informix ON-Bar and ontape utilities to back up and restore database server data. These utilities enable you to recover your databases after data is lost or becomes corrupted due to hardware or software failure or accident.
- Enterprise Replication
  The HCL® Informix® Enterprise Replication Guide describes the concepts of data replication using Informix Enterprise Replication, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
  - About Enterprise Replication
    Informix® Enterprise Replication generates and manages multiple copies of data at one or more sites, which allows an enterprise to share corporate data throughout its organization.
    - HCL Informix® Enterprise Replication technical overview
      Informix® Enterprise Replication is an asynchronous, log-based tool for replicating data between HCL Informix database servers. Enterprise Replication on the source server captures transactions to be replicated by reading the logical log, storing the transactions, and reliably transmitting each transaction as replication data to the target servers.
      - Enterprise Replication Terminology
        You must understand Enterprise Replication terminology.
      - Asynchronous Data Replication
      - Log-Based Data Capture
      - High Performance
      - High Availability
      - Consistent Information Delivery
      - Repair and Initial Data Synchronization
        Enterprise Replication provides initial data synchronization and multiple methods to repair replicated data.
      - Flexible Architecture
        Enterprise Replication allows replications based on specific business and application requirements and does not impose model or methodology restrictions on the enterprise.
      - Centralized Administration
      - Ease of Implementation
      - Network Encryption
        Enterprise Replication supports the same network encryption options that you can use with communications between server and clients to provide complete data encryption.
    - How Enterprise Replication Replicates Data
  - Planning and designing for Enterprise Replication
    Before you set up your replication system, plan how to include Enterprise Replication into your database server environment, design your database schema by following Enterprise Replication requirements, and then design your replication system between database servers.
  - Setting up and managing Enterprise Replication
    After you design your replication system, you define it and start replication.
  - Push data feature
  - Loopback replication
  - Appendixes

Flexible Architecture

Enterprise Replication allows replications based on specific business and application requirements and does not impose model or methodology restrictions on the enterprise.

Enterprise Replication supports both primary-target and update-anywhere replication models.

Enterprise Replication supports the following network topologies:

Fully connected
Continuous connectivity between all participating database servers.
Hierarchical tree
A parent-child configuration that supports continuous and intermittent connectivity.
Forest of trees
Multiple hierarchical trees that connect at the root database servers.

You can add High-Availability Data Replication to any of these topologies.

Enterprise Replication supports all built-in Informix® data types, as well as extended and user-defined data types.

Enterprise Replication operates in LAN, WAN, and combined LAN/WAN configurations across a range of network transport protocols.

Enterprise Replication supports the Global Language Support (GLS) feature, which allows Informix® products to handle different languages, regional conventions, and code sets.