Creating Additional Replicas

After you have made one replica, you'll probably want to make more. These additional replicas are copies that you can distribute throughout the organization. You can create them using the Access user interface, the Replication Manager, or VBA code.

A sales organization, for example, might use multiple replicas for sales reps who take copies of the database along on their notebook computers. Each of these copies must be a replica created by the replication process rather than a copy made by the operating system. Otherwise, the work of each salesperson can't be synchronized with that of the others.

You can make replicas with any of the three methods mentioned, but you can also make additional replicas from any member ...

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