Administrator Guide

View Replication Events
Events related to replication can be viewed using Storage Manager.
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, select Replications.
4. Click the Replication Events tab.
The replication events are displayed.
You can search for specic replication events by typing search text in the box at the bottom of the Replications panel.
Recovering an Individual NAS Volume
You can access or restore data from a target NAS volume if needed.
Promote a Target NAS Volume
Promoting a target NAS volume to a recovery NAS volume makes the target NAS volume writable, and clients can manually fail over
to it. This operation can be performed regardless of whether the source NAS volume is available. The recovery NAS volume's data
will be complete up to the point in time of the most recent successful replication. When you promote a target NAS volume, any
replication operations for the NAS volume that are in progress are suspended. You can promote a target NAS volume from either the
source or target
FluidFS cluster.
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
4. Click the Replications tab.
5. In the Replication Status area, click Promote Destination.
The Promote Destination dialog box opens.
6. Click OK.
Demote a Target NAS Volume
Demote the target NAS volume to resume the original replication operations. When you demote a target NAS volume, all data written
to the recovery NAS volume while it was temporarily promoted will be lost. You can demote a target NAS volume only from the
source FluidFS cluster.
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System viewe, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
4. Click the Replications tab.
5. Select Demote Destination.
The Demote Destination dialog box opens.
6. Click OK.
Using Replication for Disaster Recovery
You can create a disaster recovery conguration in which you replicate data from a primary FluidFS cluster to a target FluidFS cluster
that you can fail over to if the primary FluidFS cluster stops responding because of an unexpected failure (hardware, disk, and so on).
The target
FluidFS cluster could either be used solely for backup for the primary site, or it could have its own NAS volumes sharing
data at the target site. In a bi-directional conguration, both FluidFS clusters can act as a failover target for each other.
After you have xed the reason that caused the original FluidFS cluster to fail, you can manually fail back to the original conguration
in which clients access data on the source NAS volume, which in turn replicates to the target NAS volume. Depending on time and
bandwidth considerations, failing back to the source NAS volume might take a considerable amount of time to complete.
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