File Replication Level

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Hi All,

I am Project Manager Installing DR and File Replication facilities from New Zealand to our DR site in Australia. For file replication we have a VNX5300 NAS in New Zealand and a CX4-480 in Australia.

We currently have a bandwidth limitation and are considering replicating ‘Critical Files Only’. Is this something we can do, choose files or directories for replication, or are we restricted to replicating the entire content of the NAS.

Are there any suggestions on how we can reduce the amount of data selected for tranfer until a bandwidth increase is provisioned.

nv_rohanraj · Answer

Hi

You cannot select a specific file to replicate but you can schedule the bandwidth usage on the replication session time and Day based.

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Rohan Raj

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dynamox · Answer

VNX replicator uses block level replication so you can't filter out certain files, you can use different bandwidth throttle mechanisms though.

Mikeb747 · Answer

Thanks for your responses. Much Appreciated Mike B

christopher_ime · Answer

Mikeb747 wrote:We currently have a bandwidth limitation and are considering replicating ‘Critical Files Only’. Is this something we can do, choose files or directories for replication, or are we restricted to replicating the entire content of the NAS. Now I'm simply taking you literally here and you likely are aware already, but since the replication sessions are on a per filesystem (and VDM) basis, no you are not restricted to replicating the 'entire content of the NAS' (unless you have just the one filesystem). *If* it made sense for your environment, you could separate the data into another filesystem and simply not replicate that.  However, as already noted, you don't have the ability from a filesystem to pick and choose what to replicate.

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