I have a local EGDB and a replica of it on AWS and am pretty much beyond caring about geodata anymore. I've had a ticket open for a month trying to get a geodata service to sync the two databases and so far we've got nothing to show for it. If I treat this as disconnected and trade message XMLs over FTP do I have to follow the pattern below?
Parent: export delta
Child: import delta
Child: export acknowledgement
Child: export delta
Parent: import acknowledgement
Parent: import delta
Parent: export acknowledgment
Child: import acknowledgment
Or can I just swap delta files back and forth? Once I import a delta message from AWS to the local DB and then export a delta message to send back to AWS does that message include the acknowledgement for the import I just did? I can program it to do that whole pattern but if I can just trade delta files and ignore the acknowledgements that would be much easier to do as a scheduled task.
Also is there a way with python or a SQL query (I'll make the query directly against the database from pyodbc in script if I need to) to see if the database is the receiver or the sender for a replica at any given moment? The arcpy replica object will tell you the last time it sent or received changes but not if those were acknowledged.
