How to replicate between 'Author' and 'Author' environment in CQ5 ? How can be this done ?.

[vikramx]

Hi All

We have a new client requirement , How to replicate between  'Author'  and 'Author' environment in CQ5 ?  How can be this done ?.  Is there a business case for this ?. We frankly feel

this user requirement cant be done. Please give us your advice.

Regards

Vikram

[Ojjis · Accepted solution]

Would maybe clustering (with the Active Clustering method and load balancing) be something to consider for you?
Currently using that and it works like a charm!

http://wem.help.adobe.com/enterprise/en_US/10-0/core/administering/cluster.html

[Paul_McMahon]

Well technically all you need to do is set up a replication agent on the first author environment and point it to the second author environment so it is possible.There are some gotchas in real life:

• What is the trigger for the replication from Author 1 to Author 2 - on publish, or is there a desire to replicate to Author 2 before you publish the content. 
• You have to have some set of business rules that control possible conflicts between the two environments. So Author 1 is the master for /content/site1 and author 2 is the master for /content/site2. Then if a user makes changes to /content/site1 on author 2 they know that there is the danger that they will be overwritten by changes from Author 1. Also if you are going to do cross replication - author 1 to author 2 and author 2 to author 1 you probably need to configure the replication agents with agent users that prevent author 1 from activating /content/site2 to author 2, and vice versus. 

[Jörg_Hoh]

Replicating content between 2 authoring instances has some drawbacks:

• ACLs are not persisted on the receiving side.
• Annotations are persisted on the receiving side.

This isn't a problem when replicating to publishs, but in an author to author usecase it's probably more a problem.

Jörg

[Former Community Member]

Yes it is possible.

For quick test. Install 2 cq instances in the author mode. Change the Default Agent(publish) replication agent in one of the author instance to point to another author instance. Change the uri in the transport handler of your agent.

[Ove_Lindström]

[quote:postID=forum__ofkb-hi_all_we_havea__huwa-would_maybeclusteri]

Would maybe clustering (with the Active Clustering method and load balancing) be something to consider for you?
Currently using that and it works like a charm!

http://wem.help.adobe.com/enterprise/en_US/10-0/core/administering/cluster.html

[/quote]

I second this. The "requirement" is most likely put by someone who tries to be smart and act knowledgeable of AEM but actually is not. Go for clustering if you need to have failover abilities author.