Promoting A Target Share Over The Wan Using Nas - HPE StoreOnce 6500 User Manual

Procedure
1. Create a new non-replicating share on the Source Appliance (using the Create button on the NAS
Shares page).
2. Reverse seed the first full restore. The simplest way to do this is to use a USB disk, as described
below. It is also possible to recover across the WAN, but this may place an unacceptable load on
bandwidth or time availability.
It is possible to reverse seed the first full restore using a USB disk, as follows:
a. Mount the target NAS share to the host and copy the share to a USB disk attached to the host.
b. Transport the media to the Replication Source site and attach it to a host.
c. Pause housekeeping on the replication source site appliance (see Pausing housekeeping on
page 120) to prevent the transmission of more data than is necessary.
d. Mount the source NAS share to the host and copy across the data from the USB disk before
running the Recovery Wizard.
3. Go to the Replication—NAS Mappings page and select the new non-replicating share.
4. Click Start Recovery Wizard.
5. At the Select Target Appliance step, select Add Target Appliance and provide the IP address of the
previous replication target device.
6. Select the existing Target. This is the Target NAS share from which files will be recovered. Click
Next.
NOTE: An entry will indicate non-replicating share (instead of Replication Target) because the
mapping is missing.
7. At the Edit Share Mapping step, create a new mapping and click Next.
8. The Summary screen is displayed. Click Adopt to run reverse replication.
9. As soon as reverse replication completes, the data may be recovered to the host using the original
backup application.
New backups can now run to the Source Appliance and replication will run normally without further
configuration.
10. Resume housekeeping on the replication source site appliance.

Promoting a Target Share over the WAN using NAS

In this example, the remote source site lost both the host servers and the StoreOnce System. New server
hardware was purchased and installed, and the administrator must recover data to the server. The
administrator has not installed a new StoreOnce System and is going to recover data directly to the
server from the Data Center StoreOnce appliance over the WAN (which will take a long time).
NOTE: The procedure described below retains the ability to back up to the Target Share. If this is not
required, an easier solution may be to recover data from the Target Share, which is read-only.
NOTE: Keep in mind that recovering high volumes of data by this method (over the WAN) will take a
considerable amount of time. Recovering data at the data centre is much faster and once recovered it can
be transported to the remote site.
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