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APPLICATION-AWARENESS ENSURES DATA COHERENCY

Forsupportedapplications,ContinuousDataReplicator(CDR) willassistin

configuringReplicationPaircontentbydiscoveringdirectoriesthatshouldbe

replicated(logs,databases,andsoforth)toprotecttheapplication'sdata.After

datafortheseapplicationshasbeenreplicated,youcanbrowseandaccessthe

LiveCopyofthedata.

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WindowsFileSyste

mAwareness

• FileAllocationTable(F

AT)filesystems

• NewTechnologyFileSystems(NTFS)

• AccessControlLists(ACL)

• Unicodefiles

• Sparsefiles

• SingleInstanceStorage

• MountPoints

• Encryptedfiles‐thekeyisnotreplicated,onlythefileitself

• SharedVolumes

• CompressedData‐in

cludi

ngacompressedfilecontainedina

compressedfolder,anyfolder(notcompressed)thatcontainstwoor

morecompressedfiles,oracompresseddrive.

• DynamicvolumesaresupportedasReplicationPaircontent

• SoftwareandHardwareRAIDstorage

• Migrationfiles(stubonly)

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UNIXFileSystemAwareness

• LogicalvolumesforAI

Xan

dLinux;onlyLinuxsupportsfilesystemson

physicaldisksconfiguredasCXBFdevices

• AccessControlLists(ACL)

• Unicodefiles;fileswithnon‐ASCIIcharactersintheirname

• Sparsefiles(duringdatareplicationphaseonly;seeNotebelow)

• Migrationfiles(stubonly)

• Linuxonl

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o Extent2FileSystem(ext2)

o Extent3FileSystem(ext3)

o ReiserFileSystem(reiserfs)

• AIXonly:

o EnhancedJournaledFileSystem(JFS2)

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