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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
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
