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Permalink Reply by Jerry Schmidt on July 31, 2013 at 6:06am

Hello Robert,

At 2.2.1 firmware you only should need to run the sync job once when you originally set up the sync'ed shares between the source and target DXi. If replication fails or is paused for any reason, then the sync job can be run again to ensure the sync'ed shares are mirrored. The sync job does not have the ability to be scheduled and does not need to be.

Snapshot are for namespace replication. The main difference between namespace replication and file/directory replication is that with file/directory mini snapshots (contains metadata) are also continuously replicated and with namespace mini snapshots are not, so the scheduled replication for namespace is the event where the snapshot (contains metadata) is sent to the target DXi so when need the data can be recovered on the target or failed back to the source and then recovered. The replication job can be scheduled (typically set to run once a day) but if you are using file/directory replication no need to worry about this.

The neat thing about vmPro is that in the event you lose the share on the v1000 and need to run a backup or restore, all you need to do is point the vmPro to see the sync share on the 6701 and you would be able to run backups and restores from that share until the v1000 becomes active again.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Smith on August 2, 2013 at 7:58am

Thank you Jerry. That's a much better description than I've been able to find so far.

Robert

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