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Promoting a target share using colocation – HP StoreOnce Backup User Manual

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Figure 15 Recovery by promoting a Target Share over NAS

Before the failure a mapping existed between a Source Share on the remote site StoreOnce Backup
System and a Target Share on the Data Center StoreOnce Backup System. After the failure the
mapping still exists but the Source Share is missing. The Target Share on the Data Center StoreOnce
Backup System is still in Target Share mode, it has not had its mappings removed.
1.

On the Target Appliance in the Data Center, go to the Replication - NAS Mappings page,
select the Target Share and remove the mapping between it and the lost Source Share.

2.

The Target Share becomes a Non-Replicating Share.

3.

Make sure the backup application is targeting the newly non-replicating share and recover
the data.

4.

At this point there is no HP StoreOnce Source Appliance at the remote site. If one is installed
at a later date, you can reverse recover the data and configure replication, as described in

(page 104)

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Figure 16 Recovery process: promoting a target share over the WAN

Promoting a Target Share using colocation

New server hardware has been purchased and installed and the admin now wants to recover
data to the server. The administrator decides to move the StoreOnce appliance that was in the
Data Center to the remote office (maybe only temporarily) in order to recover the server data.

108 Restore processes with replication