{"id":38772,"date":"2019-06-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=38772"},"modified":"2020-03-21T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:40:59","slug":"nakivo-replication-from-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/nakivo-replication-from-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakivo: Replication from Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Latest Nakivo Backup & Replication 8.5<\/a> provides a new feature called Replication from Backup<\/em> that allows to reduce the snapshot overhead<\/strong> optimizing resources and time.<\/p>\n

When backup and replication processes take place, both need to create a snapshot<\/strong> of the virtual machine to protect consuming production network and compute resources.<\/p>\n

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How Replication from Backup works<\/h2>\n

When the backup and replication jobs are executed on the same VM, the software creates two independent snapshots<\/strong> using compute resources, network bandwidth affecting the application performance.<\/p>\n

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During the configuration of the replication job, the Replication from Backup<\/em> feature allows the administrators to limit the required snapshots<\/strong>\u00a0to create using as source virtual machine the data stored in the repository. These\u00a0data are then injected<\/strong>\u00a0in the replica.<\/p>\n

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In large environments this solution saves time and resources<\/strong> limiting the load on the production network. Using the backup as source data for the replication, the production network is used during the backup process only<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Replication jobs can be configured to be executed on a specific schedule or triggered from backup<\/strong> automatically.<\/p>\n

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Configure a Replication from Backup job<\/h2>\n

In the Nakivo's dashboard, select Create > VMware vSphere replication job<\/strong> from main menu.<\/p>\n

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In the Source<\/strong> tab of the New Replication Job Wizard, select the Backup Repositories<\/strong> option from the View<\/strong> drop-down menu. This option allows you to pick a specific virtual machine directly from the backup repository.<\/p>\n

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From available repositories, select the virtual machine's backup to use as VM source for the replication then click Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Specify the\u00a0Container<\/strong>,\u00a0Datastore<\/strong>, Network<\/strong> and VM folder<\/strong> for the replica then click Next<\/strong>\u00a0to continue.<\/p>\n

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Specify the desired Schedule<\/strong> for the replication then click Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Define the retention by entering the requested recovery points to keep and click Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Specify the Job name<\/strong> for the replica then click Finish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Run the Replication job<\/h2>\n

From the dashboard, right click the just created Replication job and select Run Job<\/strong> option to execute the job immediately.<\/p>\n

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Select Run for all VMs<\/strong> then click Run<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The replication process takes place.<\/p>\n

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In the Replication from Backup<\/em> configuration procedure, you can notice fields App-aware mode<\/strong> and Change tracking<\/strong> are not present. These parameters are not required to be set since the source VM comes from a backup, therefore in a \"power off\" state where data don't need to be processed for consistency.<\/p>\n

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Configuring the replication for the same virtual machine using the\u00a0traditional replication method<\/strong> instead, these fields are present and need to be set in the configuration page to get a consistent replica and to reduce the data sent over the network.<\/p>\n

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Replication from Backup<\/em> feature brings the advantage of offloading the production network<\/strong> reducing the time required to complete the replica since only the snapshot for the backup<\/strong> process is created.<\/p>\n

Nakivo Backup & Replication<\/a> 8.5 can be downloaded as 30-day trial<\/a> for testing purposes.<\/p>\n

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Latest Nakivo Backup & Replication 8.5 provides a new feature called Replication from Backup that allows to reduce the snapshot overhead optimizing resources and time. When backup and replication processes take place, both need to create a snapshot of the virtual machine to protect consuming production network and compute resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":"","linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","bluesky_did:plc:tkabz5kl2rukzdwtuongv3kz_did:plc:tkabz5kl2rukzdwtuongv3kz":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2138,1697],"tags":[579,582,1979],"class_list":["post-38772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-backup-en","category-nakivo-en","tag-backup-en","tag-replication-en","tag-repository-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}