Replication Agent Management

Review the administration and maintenance tasks for Replication Agent for Oracle.

The administration and maintenance tasks for Replication Agent include:

Initializing Replication Agent
Deinitializing Replication Agent
Truncating the transaction log
Backing up Replication Agent objects in the primary database

Replication for Oracle

The Replication Agent for Oracle uses the Oracle LogMiner to capture replicated transactions. The objects it creates in the primary database facilitate stored procedure replication. These database objects require no routine maintenance.

Depending on the configuration, Replication Agent may also access archived transactions logs (default) or may process only online transaction logs. For information about redo log and archive log files, see the Replication Agent Primary Database Guide.

Initializing a Replication Agent Instance
Initialize an instance of Replication Agent, and create the objects it needs in the primary database.
Deinitializing a Replication Agent Instance
Deinitialize an instance of Replication Agent, and remove its objects from the primary database.
Transaction Log Truncation
Replication Agent for Oracle supports both automatic and manual truncation of the transaction log.
Primary Database Backup
The Replication Agent does not support automatically backing up and restoring Replication Agent objects in the primary database.

Parent topic: Administration