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a. Alternate data streams are not included in the protection job size calculation.
Therefore, you may see the mirror process at 100% complete while mirroring
continues.
b. The number of files and directories reported to be mirrored will be incorrect. It
will be off by the number of alternate streams contained in the files and
directories because the alternate streams are not counted. This is a reporting
issue only. The streams will be mirrored correctly.
c. Use the checksum option when performing a difference mirror or verification
to ensure that all alternate data streams are compared correctly.
d. If your alternate streams are read-only, the times may be flagged as different
if you are creating a verification report only. Initiating a remirror with the
verification will correct this issue.
5. If you select encrypted files, keep in mind the following.
a. Only the data, not the attributes or security/ownership, is replicated. However,
the encryption key is included. This means that only the person who created
the encrypted file on the source will have access to it on the target.
b. Only data changes cause replication to occur; changing security/ownership
or attributes does not.
c. Replication will not occur until the Windows Cache Manager has released
the file. This may take awhile, but replication will occur when Storage
Mirroring Replicate can access the file.
d. When remirroring, the entire file is transmitted every time, regardless of the
remirror settings.
e. Empty encrypted files will be mirrored to the target, but if you copy or create
an empty encrypted file within the protection job after mirroring is complete,
the empty file will not be created on the target. As data is added to the empty
file on the source, it will then be replicated to the target.
f. When you are replicating encrypted files, a temporary file is created on both
the source and target servers. The temporary file is automatically created in
the same directory as the Storage Mirroring Replicate disk queues. If there is
not enough room to create the temporary file, an out of disk space message
will be logged. This message may be misleading and indicate that the drive
where the encrypted file is located is out of space, when it actually may be
the location where the temporary file is trying to be created that is out of disk
space.
6. If you are using mount points, keep in mind the following.
a. By default, the mount point data will be stored in a directory on the target.
You can create a mount point on the target to store the data or maintain the
replicated data in a directory. If you use a directory, it must be able to handle