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sayabannatole
sayabannatole
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December 18, 2020
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aem author to author content replication for sync

  • December 18, 2020
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Hi,

 

We are looking at available solutions to sync two author instances and one of the option we thought of using author to author replication.

Can we use this option to sync content between two instance? will this option have any implications on the performance or security?

any inputs would be great.

 

Thanks 

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    Best answer by shelly-goel

    @sayabannatole  I would suggest to use Grabbit for migrating/ syncing content between two instances. It's much faster and robust.

    Replication would have performance issues with so many nodes to be replicated at the same time and would slow down the instances.

    https://github.com/TWCable/grabbit

     

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    shelly-goel
    Adobe Employee
    shelly-goelAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
    Adobe Employee
    December 18, 2020

    @sayabannatole  I would suggest to use Grabbit for migrating/ syncing content between two instances. It's much faster and robust.

    Replication would have performance issues with so many nodes to be replicated at the same time and would slow down the instances.

    https://github.com/TWCable/grabbit

     

      Rohan_Garg
      Community Advisor
      Rohan_GargCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      March 15, 2023

      Hi @shelly-goel,

      Query 1 - Did you have any issues in using Grabbit with AEM 6.5 ?

      As per Grabbit's github repo latest version is v7.1.5 released 2 years ago and support is mentioned till AEM version 6.3.

        shelly-goel
        Adobe Employee
        shelly-goelAdobe Employee
        Adobe Employee
        March 15, 2023

        I did use it on AEM6.3 but I would suggest you can give it a try on AEM6.5

          sayabannatole
          sayabannatoleAuthor
          Level 2
          December 18, 2020

          Hi @shelly-goel  Thanks for your response i will definitely have a look at using Grabbit. My concern about using author to replication is still workable option right , barring the performance issues which can be accommodated with enough resources on both instances? 

            shelly-goel
            Adobe Employee
            shelly-goelAdobe Employee
            Adobe Employee
            December 18, 2020
            Conceptually it can be done though performance would not be good with tree replication (can be better with more compute resources). You can rather create a content package, download and install on another instance.
            Nirmal_Jose
            Adobe Employee
            Nirmal_JoseAdobe Employee
            Adobe Employee
            December 19, 2020

            There is no problem in using author replication agent, but it is an additional overhead to production author when each page is published. You can use the below flow chart to select the right method for content synchronisation.

             

             

             

            Pros and cons of each method is depicted as below. 

            Hope this helps to select the right approach for you.

              sayabannatole
              sayabannatoleAuthor
              Level 2
              December 21, 2020

              Hi @nirmal_jose 

               

              Thanks for the clarification, couple of things i have observed for two of the options i.e in case of backup/restore if there's a segment error in source then it will get carried over as part of sync to target..in case of vlt-rcp the sync fails occasionally due to unknown reasons and needs to remove the mapped path and resync everything from the beginning

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