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15 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014
4 Synchronizing the source and target containers
Once seeding import is complete, two possible scenarios exist:
• The target container already exists, or,
• The target container does not exist, and, therefore, a fresh replication pair must be created.
4.1 If a target container exists
If a target container exists, you should initiate replication re-sync between the source and target DR Series
system containers. Since the data is already present on the target, the re-sync will complete quickly after
transferring the namespace with any other new or changed data. Complete the following steps.
1. Enter the command:
replication --resync --name <name> --role <source | target>
2. Wait for replication state to come to “INSYNC”.
4.2 If the target container does not exist
If a target container does not exist, complete the following steps.
1. Create a container on the target DR Series system.
2. Enable replication between the source and target DR containers by using the following command:
replication --add < … >
3. Once the replication status changes to ‘INSYNC,’ then both source and target have the same data.
4. Enter the following command on the target to remove unwanted data created by seeding:
seed –cleanup