Restoring a Dedicated Consumer

This section applies only in situations where the replication mechanism cannot automatically bring a dedicated consumer replica up to date. Such situations include if the database files become corrupted or if replication has been interrupted for too long. In these cases, you need to restore or reinitialize the consumer in one of the following ways:

• The simplest way is not to restore a backup, but to reinitialize the consumer from one of its suppliers, either a master or a hub replica. This ensures that the latest data is sent to the consumer and that the data will be ready for replication. See Replica Initialization From LDIF.

• For replicas with millions of entries, it can be faster to make a binary copy to restore a more recent backup taken from another consumer replicated suffix. See Initializing a Replicated Suffix by Using Binary Copy. If there is no other consumer to copy, reinitialize the replica as described in the previous item or restore it as described in the next item, if possible.

• If the backup of your consumer is not older than the maximum age of change log contents on any of its suppliers, either hub or master replicas, the backup may be used to restore this consumer. When the consumer is restored, its suppliers will use their change logs to update the consumer with all modifications that have been processed since the backup was saved.