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title: Replication
description: Always-on directory services use replication to let applications continue reading and writing data, even when individual servers crash, and network connections are interrupted. DS replication is designed to make building highly available directory services straightforward.
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# Replication

Always-on directory services use replication to let applications continue reading and writing data, even when individual servers crash, and network connections are interrupted. DS replication is designed to make building highly available directory services straightforward.

* [About replication](repl-about.html)

* [Manual initialization](repl-init.html)

* [Add a new replica](repl-add-replica.html)

* [Replication status](repl-status.html)

* [Manual purge](repl-purge.html)

* [Standalone replicas and replication servers](repl-standalone.html)

* [Replication groups (advanced)](repl-groups.html)

* [Subtree replication (advanced)](repl-subtree.html)

* [Fractional replication (advanced)](repl-fractional.html)

* [Read-only replicas](repl-read-only.html)

* [Trusted replicas (advanced)](repl-trusted.html)

* [Listen addresses](repl-listen.html)

* [Disk space thresholds](repl-disk-space.html)

* [Recover from user error](repl-recover.html)

* [Replication conflicts](repl-conflict.html)

* [Bootstrap replication servers](repl-bootstrap.html)

* [Disable replication](repl-stop.html)

* [Monitor replication](repl-monitoring.html)