Using the One-to-Many Replication Feature

PowerSyncŪ 5.0-S contains a feature that enables the replication of directories and files to more than one UNC or mapped drive path over a network connection. This feature helps organizations to maintain network servers that scale horizontally across the network. This can result in data access load balancing, better end-user response times and reduced network traffic, and assured data availability.

When would I want to use this feature?
One-to-Many Replication is used to maintain a high level of data consistency in selected directories on a number of networked servers. Network load balancing and data protection are key benefits derived from One-to-Many Replication.  The primary capabilities of this feature are to automatically  distribute (replicate)  the contents of selected directories to a number of servers (replicas) on a scheduled basis.  

How the One-to-Many feature works
This feature allows the network administrator to use the PowerSync user interface to setup a automatic replication from one or more source servers to one or more target-destination servers that are connected to the network. This operation is identical to the setting up PowerSync to perform a one-to-one replication or synchronization except that more than two paths can be selected.

Group replication is accomplished by replicating from the left side, or master drive, to each of the right side paths. These paths will be replicated in the sequence below to insure that all right side drive paths contain a replica of the master (left side) path.

Left .............................Right
AA =============>BB
AA =============>CC
AA =============>DD

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