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Status Submitted
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 16, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Introduce new option for replication to allow replication to process new data and backlog data separate and when process backlog data ( replicating_objects) we need to introduce tape optimization

NYU has > 500million objects on tape sitting on replicating_objects which doesn't have replication copy on target. In order to catch up the backlog, we may need to introduce new options to allow replication to process new data and backlog from tape separated

 

for example

replicate node mode=ALl|new|resume

 

All: works normal mode as of now ( new + resume)

new: only process new data and skip process replicating_objects

resume: only process data in replicating_objects ( skip new data  not on replicating_objects). when we do this function, we need to based on volume, for example open multi sessions per volume , we may further introduce suboptions like mode=resume volume=vol1,vol2 etc

 

 

Idea priority Urgent

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