[GitHub] wohali commented on a change in pull request #349: More information about replication. Fixes #346

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wohali commented on a change in pull request #349: More information about replication. Fixes #346
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/349#discussion_r234370991
 
 

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 File path: src/replication/intro.rst
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 @@ -26,18 +26,42 @@ the end of the process, all active documents on the source database are also in
 the destination database and all documents that were deleted in the source
 databases are also deleted on the destination database (if they even existed).
 
-Triggering Replication
-======================
 
-Replication is controlled through documents in the
-:ref:`_replicator <replicator>` database, where each document describes one
-replication process (see :ref:`replication-settings`).
+Transient and Persistant Replication
+====================================
+
+There are two different ways to set up a replication. The first one that was
+introduced into CouchDB leads do a replication that could be called `transient`.
+Transient means that there are no documents backing up the replication. So after a
+restart of the CouchDB server the replication will disapear. Later, the
+:ref:`_replicator <replicator>` database was introduced, which keeps documents
+containing your replication parameter. Such a replication can be called `persisent`.
+Trancient replications were kept for backward compatibility. Both replications can
 
 Review comment:
   Misspelling of "Transient"

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