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the amount of data contained in the mount point.
b. Recursive mount points are not supported. If you select data stored on a
recursive mount point, mirroring will never finish.
7. Storage Mirroring Replicate supports transactional NTFS (TxF) write operations,
with the exception of TxF SavePoints (intermediate rollback points).
a. With transactional NTFS and Storage Mirroring Replicate mirroring, data that
is in a pending transaction is in what is called a transacted view. If the
pending transaction is committed, it is written to disk. If the pending
transaction is aborted (rolled back), it is not written to disk.
During a Storage Mirroring Replicate mirror, the transacted view of the data
on the source is used. This means the data on the target will be the same as
the transacted view of the data on the source. If there are pending
transactions, Storage Mirroring Replicate will indicate this state. As the
pending transactions are committed or aborted, Storage Mirroring Replicate
mirrors any necessary changes to the target. Once all pending transactions
are completed, the state will be updated.
If you see the pending transactions state, you can check the Storage
Mirroring Replicate log file for a list of files with pending transactions. As
transactions are committed or aborted, the list is updated until all transactions
are complete.
b. During replication, transactional operations will be processed on the target
identically as they are on the source. If a transaction is committed on the
source, it will be committed on the target. If a transaction is aborted on the
source, it will be aborted on the target.
c. When recovery occurs any pending transactions on the target will be aborted
before the source identity is assigned to the target.
8. Storage Mirroring Replicate supports Windows 2008 symbolic links and junction
points. A symbolic link is a link (pointer) to a file. Junction points are also links, but
to folders and volumes.
a. If the link and the file/folder/volume are both in your source protection job,
both the link and the file/folder/volume are mirrored and replicated to the
target.
b. If the link is in the source protection job, but the file/folder/volume it points to
is not, only the link is mirrored and replicated to the target. The
file/folder/volume that the link points to is not mirrored or replicated to the
target. A message is logged to the Storage Mirroring Replicate log identifying
this situation.
c. If the file/folder/volume is in the source protection job, but the link pointing to
it is not, only the file/folder/volume is mirrored and replicated to the target.