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Pre-installation tasks

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Replication Server

Plan your replication system

The Replication Server Configuration Guide for UNIX provides the necessary
information, including an installation worksheet and a database setup
worksheet to help you plan your replication system. Become familiar with
Chapter 1, “Preparing to Install and Configure Replication Server” and the
requirements of your replication system before continuing with the installation.

Review system requirements

Replication Server requires a computer with the system configuration
described in Table 1-1.

Table 1-1: System requirements for UNIX

Review operating system patch requirements

Contact your operating system provider for any patches recommended for your
installation, or check the Replication Server release bulletin for your platform.

Item

Requirement

Disk storage

A minimum of 450MB of available hard disk space:

• 400MB for the Replication Server software, supporting files, and log files.

• An additional 20MB for each Replication Server disk partition. The disk partition may be on

a different disk than your Sybase software.

• One of the following:

• Disk space for your Adaptive Server Enterprise database, which serves as your Replication

Server System Database (RSSD) if you are not using the Embedded RSSD (ERRSD). See
your Adaptive Server Enterprise documentation for system requirements.

• 80MB for your Adaptive Server Anywhere database, which serves as your ERSSD. The

database directory, transaction log directory, and backup directory that make up the 80MB
should each reside on different disks.

More disk space may be required, depending on your replication system application.

Operating
system

One of the following platforms:

• Sun Solaris SPARC 8, 9, and 10

• Sun Solaris Opteron x64 10

• HP–UX 11.11 and 11.23

• IBM AIX 5.2

Supported
protocols

TCP/IP