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New Replication Task, step 3 “Select location and datastore for replica”

Define the Replica name's Suffix to be used when creating the VM replica. The default replica name
is “%Machine_Name%_vmpreplica”, where “%Machine_name%” is the original VM name which is
being replicated, and “_vmpreplica” is the Replica name's Suffix. If a VM with such a name already
exists, you'll get a warning prompting you to change the name suffix.

Upon making the selection, click Next to proceed to the next step.

9.1.4 Replication task options

In the fourth step of the New Replication Task wizard you should define your replication task name.
Note that [ ] { } ; , . symbols are not allowed for the task name.

For replication task preferences click More options.... The following options are available.

1) E-mail notifications.

2) SNMP notifications.

For details see the Notifications section (p. 47).

3) CBT replication.

This option in the Additional settings section defines whether to utilize the Changed Block Tracking
(CBT) feature of VMware for the virtual machines supporting it. The default setting for CBT
replication is: Enabled.

CBT replication keeps track of all the changed blocks inside the virtual machine. This significantly
reduces the time for replication. The time is reduced because Acronis Backup for VMware does not
need to check which blocks have changed since the last backup. It gets this information from the
VMware API.