How to DR to an alternate server

Use the DrTool to have FileFly replicate to an alternate server.

  1. Create a new Policy, and select for the Operation to Create DrTool File From Source.

  2. Select which Rules and Sources the DrTool covers.

  3. Run the DrTool job, so there is a recent copy of the data.

  4. Open the job to get a recent DrTool file after the job completes: Open the task and select Download DrTool Files.

  5. Download the generated text file.

  6. Open the DrTool on the server where the stubs are migrated.

  7. Use the -csu option to redirect stub restores. This example takes a DrTool file for the fileflyagent.testdomain.com machine and changes the folder (E:\restored here\) where the stubs are restored.

  8. The files with the URL substituted are highlighted if the DrTool file has multiple URLs in it.

  9. Right-click and select Create Stub for the files which you want to recover. These are restored to a different directory.

  10. When prompted, select whether to update the path information on Swarm also.

    If there is a large amount of files being recovered, the DrTool file displays a progress indicator. A log file generates for each restoration job.

  11. Update the DrTool file to point to the new destination and agent to restore stubs to a server they did not originate from.
    In this example, the migration agent win://fileshare.testdomain.com/C/share1/ is the new path:

Important

To restore a stub to a different agent, that migration agent must have connection to the source Swarm cluster, because it needs to read the files from Swarm and then update the information.

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