• A full replica contains all of a database's documents and design features (such as forms and agents). To learn how to create a full replica, see Creating a full replica.
• A partial replica contains only documents you pre-select, documents in specified folders or views, shortened documents, document summaries, or documents whose fields contain specified information. To learn how to create a partial replica, see Creating a partial replica.

  A partial replica is useful if you need only part of a database and want to save space on your hard disk or reduce the time and expense of replication over a phone line.

Note A replica that contains no documents is called a replica stub. If you attempt to open a replica stub, Notes shows a message saying the database is not initialized and must be replicated.

For more information, see Replication preferences.

To save time, create local replicas at the office while you're connected to the network. (You can create local replicas over a modem, but this takes longer.) If you use a laptop, bring it to the office and create local replicas on it directly. To save hard disk space, make local replicas of only those databases you need to use when you're not connected to a network.

Caution If you create a replica of your mail, make sure you give the new replica the same file name and path as the file specified in the "Mail file" field on the Mail tab of your current location document. You can use different mail file names/paths for different locations; make sure replicas you use for those locations have matching file names/paths. For more information, see Using different locations.

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See Also

Replication: the secret to working offline
Replicating mail and other databases
Replicating selected documents in a database