Dell PowerVault DR2000v - Manual (Page 6)

6 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014
2 Seeding data from a DR Series system and copying it to a
replication target
2.1 Preparing for seeding
Before the seeding process is started, you need to gather the following information.
• The names of the containers on the appliance that contain the data to be replicated (typically the
containers for which the disaster recovery setup must be done). These container names are given as
input to the seeding process.
• Name or IP address of the client machine on which the USB device is mounted.
• Name of the CIFS share (USB device) exported to the “outside world.”
• Credentials (including domain, if any) to access the client.
• A password (minimum eight characters) to use for encrypting the data on the device. This password
must be input at import time to decrypt the data.
2.2 Setting up a seeding export job on the source DR Series system
The following steps describe the commands for setting up a seeding export job on the source DR Series
system.
1. Create a seed export job by entering the following command.
seed --create --op export [--enc_type <aes128 | aes256>]
By default the data is encrypted; however, the encryption type is optional. This command would
request a password that is needed for encryption as shown in the following example. (Note that
this same password is to be given as input to the import operation, which verifies and decrypts the
data.)
2. Once a seed job is created, the container whose data is to be seeded must be added to the job. If
there are multiple containers, you can execute the following command multiple times to seed the
data from all containers.
seed --add_container --name <container name>