Replication over WAN

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Hello

i found in Community Edition a new feature to replicate data. I read also that an WAN accelerator part exists but is not included in free as expected
So i am wondering if this replication feature makes any sense over WAN with free edition. Forever incremental will be no problem, but what happens on full backups?
In case of transfering existing active full or full synth. backup, does it compare what already exists on target location or does it transfer everything again over network. As WAN accelerator is described to speed up to 50x, i am afraid it will be the latter one.

Or is it possible to use a 2nd B&R server in remote location which helps to limit transferred data in case of synth full?

[bdufour]

replication is different than backups - there isnt any forever incremental or full backup options in the replication jobs. you pick how many restore points you want and it replicates the source vm, u can use a seed to help if the vm is very large.

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does it transfer the whole data for every restore point again? Is it no alternative to DFSr?

[bdufour]

no it uses cbt, which can be enabled in the job.

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Does it matter for CBT which type of backup files are given as source (active full, full synth, incremental ...) ?

So this software really allows to replicate all Hyper-V VMs to 2nd Hyper-V which can act as Standby server in case of emergency?

[foggy]

Seems like you're talking about replication from backup, not regular replication that uses source host/storage to retrieve VM data. Anyway, only changes are replicated in both cases.