Content Replication in alfresco

Replicating content from one server to another in alfresco 5.0

Steps:

a.      Identify two machines (IP address/host names with port numbers on which alfresco is running).

b.      On source machine:

                                                    i.     Create a folder or select a folder/file you want to replicate on target repository

                                                   ii.     Enable replication service (checkbox) from http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s/enterprise/admin/admin-replicationservice and click Save OR in alfresco-global.properties add property replication.enabled=true but it doesnot work when tried. So do it from share ui.

                                                  iii.     Here, the checkbox ‘Read Only Replication’ will be enabled (checked) by default. Uncheck it if you want that the content/folders can be edited/deleted by the target repository. Otherwise by default the content replicated on target will be read only. Click Save.

                                                  iv.     Go to Data Dictionary > Transfers > Transfer Target Groups > Default Group. This folder ‘Default Group’ has a rule to specialize the incoming type of folder to trx:transferTarget. So create a new folder here (any name for ex: oct5).

                                                   v.     Edit properties of folder oct5, specify the endpoint host (ip address/asset id of target), endpoint port (8080 if target alf running on 8080), username and pwd (admin/admin mostly for target alf). Click Enabled checkbox. Save.

                                                  vi.     Go to Admin tools > Replication jobs > Create Job. Specify name, Payload (folder you want to choose for replicating on target repository), Trasfer target as ‘oct5’, click Enabled.

                                                vii.     Now, make the target repository ready to accept the data. (i.e before starting the replication ensure that target repository is ready by following the step c mentioned below)

                                               viii.     Click Run

c.      On target machine:

                                                    i.     In alfresco-global.properties, add the property transferservice.receiver.enabled=true

                                                   ii.     In share-config-custom.xml, add the following entry:

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Replication">

      <share-urls>

              <share-url repositoryId="622f9533-2a1e-48fe-af4eee9e41667ea4">http://localhost:8080/share/</share-url>

</share-urls>

</config>

                                                  iii.     The repositoryId above should be taken from source repository, the source repository can give it to target by hitting the following url and getting the current repository id: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s/enterprise/admin/admin-repositoryinfo

                                                  iv.     And for <share-url> value, keep localhost itself, don’t point it to source repository ip address or asset id.

                                                   v.     Start alfresco.

d.      Findings after the replication job is run:

                                                    i.     The nodeRefs of the source and target repository remains the same.

                                                   ii.     The folders/files created on target repo will have a replication symbol besides it with label ‘Transferred from another repository’.

                                                  iii.     The bpm package/workflow won’t be replicated to target repo.

                                                  iv.     All metadata/content along with permissions will be replicated to target repo. But for permissions to be replicated the same users/groups should exist on target repo as they are on source repo