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Replica reseed
Good day everyone.
Version 8. We been replicating an app server but yesterday the disk on the original VM was increased. We took a backup after the resize and send it to the remote site. Now on the replication options there is a setting that allows to get the seed from backup repository.
If just need to select the backup repository on the replication settings and run the job, will the previous restore points lost? is there any kind of best practice for this type scenario mainly when replicated VMs are large.
Thanks in advance,
Version 8. We been replicating an app server but yesterday the disk on the original VM was increased. We took a backup after the resize and send it to the remote site. Now on the replication options there is a setting that allows to get the seed from backup repository.
If just need to select the backup repository on the replication settings and run the job, will the previous restore points lost? is there any kind of best practice for this type scenario mainly when replicated VMs are large.
Thanks in advance,
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Re: Replica reseed
Because replicas use snapshots for their restore points, any time you need to re-seed the replica due to disk resize you will lose the restore points. VMware does not let you resize a volume that has snapshots.
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Re: Replica reseed
Thanks skrause, that was the reply I didn't want to read
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Re: Replica reseed
Actually, starting from version 7 R2 we're handling replica disk resize in automatic fashion. So, re-seed is not needed, unless you want to avoid transferring the new disk as a whole during new replication cycle. Thanks.
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Re: Replica reseed
Eremin, it seems yet still the previous restore points will be lost. and the calculating digest is pretty high resource consuming. So it seems that's better to erase the replica and recreate all from scratch.
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Re: Replica reseed
Previous restore points will be deleted automatically, indeed.
If you think going from the scratch is more applicable (faster) scenario, you can stick to it.
Thanks.
If you think going from the scratch is more applicable (faster) scenario, you can stick to it.
Thanks.
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