Suspending and Resuming Replay 4 Replication (4034753)

Replication remains suspended during seeding so that new recovery points are not transferred from the source core before the duplicated data is in place on the DR core. Once seeding is complete, you must manually resume replication in order for the epoch between the source core and target core to synchronize. This will transmit the duplicate recovery points from the source core to the target core over the WAN connection and build upon the data populated during the seeding.

In turn, replication can be suspended at any time, as for testing or re-seeding.

NOTE: Suspending will prevent recovery points from rolling up.

There are two levels of suspending and resuming: agent and global. Actions made at the agent level will only apply to the agent selected. Actions performed at the global level will override those at the agent level; however, changes made to the global-level settings will not necessarily change the settings at the agent level.

NOTE: The post-seeding resume must be performed at the agent level.

Suspending Replication

The following directions describe how to suspend replication at the agent level and at the global level.

To suspend replication at the agent level:

1. In the Replay Admin Console on the source core, click the Replication tab.
2. For each agent, select the server, click on the Actions button, and select Suspend replication for the agent.

The status of the agent will change to Replication is suspended.

To suspend replication at the global level:

1. In the Replay Admin Console on the source core, click the Replication tab.
2. Click on the Actions button, and select Suspend future replication.

The status of all agents listed will change to Replication is suspended.

Resuming Replication 

The following directions describe how to resume replication at the agent level and at the global level.  

NOTE: If replication was suspended at the agent level, you must resume replication for that server at the agent level. Global resume will not override actions made for individual agents.

To resume replication at the agent level:

1. Once the recovery points have been consumed on the target core, synchronize the backups with the offsite backups by starting the Replay Admin Console on the source core and clicking on the Replication tab.
2. The replication status should read Replication is suspended. To resume replication for individual agents, select the server, click on the Actions button, and select Resume replication for the agent to synchronize the source backups with the offsite backups. Do this for each agent you want to resume replication.

The status will read Replication is idle while the recovery points synchronize. Once synchronization is complete, the replication status should display as Sync´ed on <DATE AND TIME>.

To resume replication at the global level:

1. Once the recovery points have been consumed on the target core, synchronize the backups with the offsite backups by starting the Replay Admin Console on the source core and clicking on the Replication tab.
2. The replication status should read Replication is suspended. To resume replication for all agents, click on the Actions button and select Resume replication to synchronize the source backups with the offsite backups.

The status will read Replication is idle while the recovery points synchronize. Once synchronization is complete, the replication status should display as Sync´ed on <DATE AND TIME>.