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48 | Working with the AppAssure 5 Core
Understanding Replication
This section provides conceptual and procedural information to help you
understand and configure replication in AppAssure 5.
About Replication
Replication is the process of copying recovery points and transmitting them to a
secondary location for the purpose of disaster recovery. The process requires a
paired source-target relationship between two cores. The source core copies the
recovery points of the protected agents and then asynchronously and continuously
transmits them to a target core at a remote disaster recovery site. The off-site
location can be a company-owned data center (self-managed core) or a third-party
managed service provider’s (MSP’s) location or cloud environment. When replicating
to a MSP, you can use built-in work flows that let you request connections and
receive automatic feedback notifications.
Possible scenarios for replication include:
 Replication to a Local Location. The target core is located in a local data center
or on-site location, and replication is maintained at all times. In this configuration,
the loss of the Core would not prevent a recovery.
 Replication to an Off-site Location. The target core is located at an off-site
disaster recovery facility for recovery in the event of a loss.
 Mutual Replication. Two data centers in two different locations each contain a
core and are protecting agents and serving as the off-site disaster recovery
backup for each other. In this scenario, each core replicates the agents to the Core
that is located in the other data center.
 Hosted and Cloud Replication. AppAssure MSP partners maintain multiple target
cores in a data center or a public cloud. On each of these cores, the MSP partner
lets one or more of their customers replicate recovery points from a source core
on the customer’s site to the MSP’s target core for a fee.
NOTE: In this scenario, customers would only have access to their own data.