Add Feature Class to Existing Replica

Question

Hi, we maintain a few replicas to push data into a secondary enterprise geodatabase for web services to reference. This workflow reduces load on the master database, means ArcGIS server doesn't need to handle on the fly projection issues as we reproject during replica syncs.

Are there any plans to introduce functionality to add feature classes to existing one way replicas via ArcGIS Pro? You can only unregister from replica via the replica management tooling. I'm interested in knowing what the ESRI community does to handle these scenarios, are we recreating the entire replica for the sake of a single feature class needing to be changed or added?

FMGLGIS · Answer

Thanks Jake, as we have high frequency edits on our master it makes it a lengthy process to recreate the entire replica, not to mention updating tooling which runs replica syncs. You're not aware of any tooling on the horizon to add items to an existing replica are you?

JakeSkinner · Answer

Hi @FMGLGIS,

You could perform the following steps:

1.  Sync your replica

2.  Unregister the replica in each geodatabase

3.  Copy the new feature class to the child geodatabase

4.  Recreate the replica using the option Register existing data only