Configure Replication and Recovery Points

Before you Begin

• Review Pre/Post Process
• Review Recovery Points

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure replication and Recovery Point options on Windows:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the ContinuousDataReplicator for the destination computer and select Properties.

2. In the ContinuousDataReplicator Properties dialog box, click the Fan-In tab.

3. Click the Pre/Post Process tab.

   • Click inside the space that corresponds to one of the following phases and type the full path of the process that you want executed during that phase. Alternatively, click Browse to locate the process.

     Pre-Recovery Point Command.

     Post-Recovery Point Command.

   • In the User Account dialog box, select Use Local System Account, or select Impersonate User and enter a user name and password. Click Ok.
4. Click the Recovery Points tab.
   • Enable the Fan-In on destination computer.
   • Select Auto-mount snapshots after Recovery Point Creation option.
   • Select Use ONTAP snapshot for ONTAP LUN destinations option, to create ONTAP snapshots on iSCSI LUN.
   • Specify Maximum Number of Recovery Points.

5. Click Storage Policy tab.

   • Select Backup Recovery Points option.
   • Select the Storage Policy.

6. Click Ok to save your changes.

   Settings in these tabs will be applied to all Replication Sets for all source computers that use this computer as a destination.

Additional Recommendations

• It is recommended that you Configure Alerts. For more information, see Alerts.

  On a source computer it is recommended that you also see Space Check for the Quick Recovery and ContinuousDataReplicator Agents and configure the Disk Space Low alert to provide warning that the source computer is running out of disk space, which will ultimately cause replication activity to be System Aborted.

• Monitor Data Replication Activities.
• Run and review the CDR Replication Job Summary Report.