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Command

CONNECT

Description

Establishes a connection between a replication set and a target machine

Syntax

CONNECT <

repset

> TO <

target_machine

> MAP EXACT | BASE <

target_path

> |<

source_path

> TO

<

target_path

> [,...]

[MIRROR | NOMIRROR] [, REPLICATE | NOREPLICATE]

[, MONITOR | NOMONITOR][, ORPHANS | NOORPHANS]

Options

!

repset

—Name of the replication set

!

target_machine

—Name of the target machine, an IP address on the target machine, or a virtual IP

address

!

MAP EXACT

—Specifies that the replication set data will be sent to the same logical volume on the

target (

c:\data

and

d:\files

is copied to

c:\data

and

d:\files

, respectively)

!

MAP BASE

—The replication set data will be sent to the locations specified below:

!

connect repset to target

—If mappings are not specified with the command,

map base

will be used by default. The data will be replicated to

\SrcName\RepsetName\SrcVolName

on the target machine

!

connect repset to target map base

target_path

—Substitute a complete path, including

the volume, for

target_path

and the data will be replicated to

target_path\SrcVolName

on

the target machine

!

connect repset to target map base

source_path

TO

target_path

—Custom location

that specifies each directory on the source and where that data will be copied to on the target
machine

!

...

—Indicates that the s

ource_path

TO

target_path

option can be used more than once for each

source directory in the replication set

!

MIRROR

—Automatically initiates a mirror when the connection is established

!

NOMIRROR

—Does not initiate a mirror when the connection is established

!

REPLICATE

—Automatically initiates replication when the connection is established

!

NOREPLICATE

—Does not initiate replication when the connection is established

!

MONITOR

—Specifies that the target is going to monitor the specified source machine for failover.

The source machine must have already been defined as a monitor machine.

!

NOMONITOR

—Specifies that the target is not going to monitor the source machine for failover

!

ORPHANS

—Removes orphan files on the target

!

NOORPHANS

—Does not remove orphan files on the target

Examples

!

connect Exchange to jersey map exact

!

connect sql to jersey map base d:\DTFiles\

Notes

!

The default settings for this command are mirror, replicate, nomonitor, and noorphans.

!

If a path begins with a non-alphabetic character or if the replication set name includes
non-alphanumeric characters, the path or name must be enclosed in quotation marks.

!

If you are establishing a connection within a NAT environment, you will need to specify the port
of the router after the IP address (seperated by a colon).