Dell PowerVault DR4100 - Manual (Page 3)

3 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014
Table of contents
1 Understanding the seeding process ............................................................................................................................................. 5
2 Seeding data from a DR Series system and copying it to a replication target ................................................................... 6
2.1 Preparing for seeding ............................................................................................................................................................ 6
2.2 Setting up a seeding export job on the source DR Series system ............................................................................. 6
2.3 Important notes about the seeding export process ...................................................................................................... 9
2.4 Export CLI flow ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10
3 Setting up a seeding import job on the target DR Series system......................................................................................... 11
3.2 Important notes about the import seeding process ................................................................................................... 13
3.4 Import CLI flow ..................................................................................................................................................................... 14
4 Synchronizing the source and target containers .................................................................................................................... 15
4.1 If a target container exists .................................................................................................................................................. 15
4.2 If the target container does not exist .............................................................................................................................. 15