Greetings,

I'm new to Open Replicator and have a question about incrementals.

I am using Cold Push to migrate a large database from DMX BCVs to VMAX storage.  We have a new cluster ready so the old cluster will run until go-live, then we take everything down and ORS will be used to Push the data over to the VMAX/new cluster.

Since I've already tested this, the initial data load is in place.  I'm wondering what the steps are to performing an incremental, instead of a full on the go-live day, in order to reduce downtime.

Here are the current steps I'm using:

1.) establish BCVs for final refresh of old_prod

2.) split and mark BCVs Not_Ready  (symmir -g oradg split -consistent -not_ready)

3.) Using a mapping file, create the symrcopy session (symrcopy create -file ORS_DMX_to_VMAX -cold -push -nop)

4.) Activate the symrcopy session (symrcopy activate -file ORS_DMX_to_VMAX -v -nop)

5.) Kick off the copying (symrcopy set mode copy -file ORS_DMX_to_VMAX)

6.) Set the pace to 0 (symrcopy set pace 0 -file ORS_DMX_to_VMAX -v -nop)

7.) Terminate, when copy is 100% (symrcopy terminate -file ORS_DMX_to_VMAX)

Questions:

a.)  Any recommendations for making this be incremental as opposed to a new copy?

b.) Any other recommendations for simplifying, etc?

Thanks In Advance!

Julianne