Switching from initial load to continuous replication of Cosmos DB sources

Since the Cosmos DB readers support both initial load and continuous replication, you can handle both with a single application. For initial load, set Mode to InitialLoad and Quiesce on IL Completion to True. When initial load completes, undeploy the application, change Mode to Incremental, enable recorvery, and redeploy and restart the application. Striim will begin writing new data to the target from the point where initial load completed.

Alternatively, when using Cosmos DB Reader, in Incremental mode you can set the Start Timestamp value to the _ts field value of the oldest event not written to the target during initial load. (Mongo Cosmos DB Reader has no Start Timestamp property.)