Add or Edit a Replication Pair

Before You Begin

• You can only update a Replication Pair whose state is Stopped, New Pair, or Failed.

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To add or edit a Replication Pair:

1. In the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set in the source machine, and select All Tasks, then select Manage Pairs.
2. To add a Replication Pair, in the Manage Pairs dialog, perform the following:
   • Specify a Common Base Folder so that all destination paths for all Replication Pairs in the Replication Set will be created in the same location on the destination host.
   • For File System data, click Add. In the Add Replication Pair dialog box, type, or click Browse to navigate to and select, a source volume or directory for the Source Path and Destination Path fields, then click OK.
   • For application data, click Add App; in the Add Applications dialog, select all of the directories associated with the application data to be replicated, and click OK. For more information about replicating application data, see Application Integration.

     Add App discovers the location of system databases on the client, as well as user-defined databases, which you can select for data replication.

3. To edit a Replication Pair, in the Manage Pairs dialog, select the new Pair or one to edit, click Edit, make any changes in the Replication Pair dialog box, and click Close.
4. To specify that additional Replication Pairs must be created for mount points that are part of your selected source volume or directory, select Automatically detect mount points. Mount points will be ignored if this option is not selected.
5. To engage all the VSS writers available in the source path when gathering backup data, select Engage All VSS Writers option.
6. When your changes are complete, click Apply.