Replication Pair - How To
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Add or Edit a Replication Pair
Delete a Replication Pair
Monitor Data Replication Activities
View Orphan Files
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:
- In the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set in the source machine,
and select All Tasks, then select Manage Pairs.
- 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.
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Add App discovers the location of system databases on the
client, as well as user-defined databases, which you can select for
data replication. |
- 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.
- 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.
- To engage all the VSS writers available in the source path when gathering
backup data, select Engage All VSS Writers option.
- When your changes are complete, click Apply.
Before You Begin
- You can only delete a Replication Pair
whose state is Stopped.
- When you delete a Replication Pair, its Recovery Points are not deleted.
Required Capability:
Capabilities
and Permitted Actions
To
delete a Replication Pair:
Select one of the following methods:
- In the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Pair, and select
Delete.
- In the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set in the source
machine, and select All Tasks, then select
Manage Pairs. In the Manage Pairs screen, select a
Replication Pair, and click Delete. When your changes are complete, click
Close.
Monitor Data Replication Activities
The Data Replication Monitor only displays data replication activities for
Replication Sets. All activity other than data replication activities, such as Recovery Point creation, is reflected in the
Job Controller.
Monitor data replication activities
View details of data replication
activities
View the failed files
for a Replication Pair
Filter which clients'
activities are displayed
Required Capability:
Capabilities
and Permitted Actions
To
monitor data replication activities:
- In the CommCell Browser, right-click the CDR icon, and select All Tasks,
then select Data Replication Monitor.
- In the Data Replication Monitor, all replication activities will be displayed
for each Replication Pair. For more information about the States displayed,
see Monitoring Data Replication.
To
view details of data replication activities for a Replication Pair:
- In the Data Replication Monitor, right-click any Replication Pair, and select
Details.
- The Pair Activity will be displayed with additional details about the job.
To
view the failed files for a Replication Pair:
- In the Data Replication Monitor, right-click any Replication Pair, and select
View Failed Files.
- If any failed files have been logged for this Replication Pair, they will
be displayed.
To
filter which clients' activities are displayed:
- In the Data Replication Monitor, right-click any Replication Pair, and select
Filters.
- In the Filter Operations dialog box, select from the following:
- Select an existing filter from the Filters list. (You can click
the View Filter Details button to see which clients each filter is
configured to monitor.)
- Click the Create a New Filter button. In the Create a New
Filter dialog box, select the clients to be monitored and click OK.
- Click Apply and then click Close.
- The Data Replication Monitor will now show activities only for the Replication
Pairs for the clients defined in your selected filter.
Related Topics:
Required Capability:
Capabilities
and Permitted Actions
To view
the orphan files for a Replication Pair:
- In the CommCell Browser, right-click the ContinuousDataReplicator icon on
a source computer, and from All Tasks, select Data Replication Monitor.
- In the Data Replication Monitor, right-click a Replication Pair and select
View Orphan Files.
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