Dell PowerVault DR4100 - Manual (Page 7)

7 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014
3. To reference the device to which the seed data must be copied, enter the following command.
(Note that only the shares exported by CIFS protocol are recognized.)
seed --add_device --server <server name> --volume <volume> --username
<user name> [--domain <domain name>]
In this command, the parameters are as follows:
• server name - the name of the client which exports the device as a CIFS share.
• volume name - the name of the export share on the target server. The name is case-sensitive.
• user name - credentials to access the share. Password is requested separately.
4. Once the add device is successful, you can cross check the configuration details by using the
following command. This step is recommended before you proceed further.
seed –show
5. Enter the following command to start the seeding process.
seed –start
The data copy begins and will continue until either the space on the device is full or all of the data
of the containers added is seeded.
6. Enter the following command to monitor the seeding progress. If the “Seed status” has reached
‘FINISHED’, then the seeding of the containers given as input is complete.
seed –stats