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Vess R2000 Series Product Manual Promise Technologies
repliCatioN baCkup
Replication refers to the process of copying or mirroring data content on a Share Disk. The Share Disk is
recreated entirely on a different NAS. The identical Share Disk uses the same name as well. The policy used to
create the replicated Share Disk can be to
mirror or copy the Share Disk (see Policy in instructions below).
Keep in mind the following points for a Replication Backup setting.
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ReplicationBackupShareDisksaremadetoaremoteNASandmustusethesamenameastheoriginal
ShareDiskonthesourceNAS.
• ANASportalmustbeconguredtocreatethereplicatedShareDisk.
• TheremoteNASmust“allow”theIPaddressoftheShareDiskontheoriginalNAS.See“AllowIPfor
backup”onpage278.
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ReplicationBackuppolicychoicesare: Mirror Mode tosyncaddedandchangedles,andledeletions
aremirroredaswell;or Copy Mode tosyncaddedandchangedleswithoutdeletionoflesthatwere
deletedfromthesourceShareDisk.
• ReplicationBackupcanbeusedformultipleShareDisksontheremoteNAS.
• AtemporaryShareDisksnapshotiscreatedifsnapshotisavailable.
• Differentialandcompressiontransmissionaresupported.
• Encryptionissupportedfortransmission.
• ReplicationBackupscanbescheduled.
• OtherReplicationBackupparametersincludeconnectiontimeoutlimit,retryattemptsallowedand
maximumtransferrate.