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September 27th, 2011 07:00

Question on Custom Replication schedul

HI All --

I have a replication customization question for anyone who might be able to help.

We are currently running two stand-alone Avamar 6.0 nodes that replicate to each other across a 10Mbps WAN link.  The replication window is nightly for about 10 hours.  Normally, this is more than sufficient for replicating our daily backup.

However, once a week, on Saturdays, we backup our main VMware cluster (about 60 VMs).  After this backup, the replication takes 2-3 days to catch-up (Sunday through Tuesday) following the normal replication window. 

To help with this, I have the option of using our entire WAN link for 20 hours (24 minus the maintenace window) on the weekends. So I would like to setup a second replication window that runs Saturdays and Sundays from 9am to 5am.  I checked PowerLink and found this solution:  https://solutions.emc.com/emcsolutionview.asp?id=esg97074

I've followed this to the letter a few times, but the replication never starts.

Does anyone know what I should check to see if crontab is picking up the new command?  Any suggestions on what logs I can check (other than replicate.log)? 

Thanks!