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1. Introduction
This document provides additional technical information on the Content Replication and Archiving feature
in M-Files. M-Files User's Guide describes the basic functionality, but the viewpoint here is more detailed
and solution-oriented. The primary purpose of this document is to give M-Files Administrators, Consultants,
and Support Engineers some further ideas of using and troubleshooting the feature.
In M-Files, there are two mechanisms available for replication: full replication and cached replication. Full
replication is based on content packages that are exported and imported between original and replica
servers, replicating both the metadata content and the file data. Cached replication is based on an
intermediate server that relays the network traffic from clients to the original server, but additionally
caches the file data in the process as a read optimization.
For the rest of this document, "replication" always means full replication unless mentioned otherwise.