HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services WAN Accelerator - Manual (Page 81)

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4. Under Add New Share, specify the local name for the share in the Local Name
text box.
5. Select Broadcast, Local, or StandAlone from the Mode drop-down list.
6. Type the remote path for the share in the Remote Path text box.
TIP: You specify the remote path using the Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) for the
mapped drive. For example, \\<origin-file-server>\<local-name>.
7. Type the server name and port in the Server Name and Port text boxes.
Mode Description
Broadcast In Broadcast mode, the share originates on the origin server and a read-only copy is
available as a share on the branch office HP EFS WAN Accelerator. The data is updated
periodically on the HP EFS WAN Accelerator with the data from the origin server. You
specify the frequency of updates (synchronization) when you configure a share.
Local In Local mode, after the HP EFS WAN Accelerator receives the initial copy, new data
generated by clients is periodically synchronized to the origin server. The folder on the
origin server essentially becomes a back-up folder of the share on the HP EFS WAN
Accelerator. Users must not directly write to this folder on the origin server.
For Local mode, make sure that the folder on the origin server is either not shared or is
shared as a read-only folder.
TIP: The account that starts the RCU must have write permissions because the RCU uses
that to update this folder.
CAUTION: In Local Mode, the HP EFS WAN Accelerator copy of the data is the master
copy, do not make changes to the shared files from the origin server while in Local mode.
Changes are propagated from the remote office hosting the share to the origin server.
StandAlone Provides read-write access to data on a branch office HP EFS WAN Accelerator. There may
or may not be an origin server at the data center with which the share has to synchronize data
to. For example, if you want to load temporary data that does not need to be backed up at a
data center, you can create a share in Stand-Alone mode with or without a remote path.