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May 7th, 2010 10:00

Initial Replication

Hey guys,

We have two sites that are geographically separated from one another both running separate Avamar servers. We want to replicate data between the two sites but have a couple of questions before doing so.

Our connection speeds between the two offices is rather limited so instead of running the initial replication which would essentially copy all data from one location to another, is it possible to extract the data from the host server, save it on a storage device, and physically transfer it to the destination server then import it, thus creating the initial 'replication' domain?

I searched for documentation regarding this issue but came up with no solutions, is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

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    Posted May 10th, 2010 03:00

    It's not possible to 'extract' the deduplicated data from the server and move it physically but you can copy the source data (either from the client(s) or using a redirected restore) to a USB disk and then perform a backup of the data on that disk by using a client at the remote site.

    This is a common solution in low bandwidth situations and is usually referred to as 'seeding' an Avamar server.

    You might also find the following solution useful for calculating just how much data you can replicate with a given amount of bandwidth.

    Calculating how much data Avamar can replicate on a daily basis
    http://solutions.emc.com/emcsolutionview.asp?id=esg106464

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    Posted May 19th, 2010 10:00

    Thanks Nicholas for the clarification and advice, this answers my question.

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    Posted February 14th, 2012 21:00

    In our environment we have two single node servers (one Primary, One DR) and we have to perform a root to root replication. Can we also seed by backing up clients at the DR location?

    Thanks

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    Posted February 16th, 2012 01:00

    No, in root to root replication the source and the target will have exact replica and mainly used for migration purpose, if you are looking for backing up clients at the DR while replicating, please setup a standard replication.

    Thanks

    Rudresh