database, networking Creating and maintaining a duplicate
copy of a database or file system on a different computer,
typically a
server. The term usually implies the
intelligent copying of parts of the source database which have
changed since the last replication with the destination.
Replication may be one-way or two-way. Two-way replication is
much more complicated because of the possibility that a
replicated object may have been updated differently in the two
locations in which case some method is needed to reconcile the
different versions.
document databases across telecommunications networks. Notes
(1997-12-12)