1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Managing Recovery Appliance
  3. Replicating Backups with Recovery Appliance
  4. Overview of Recovery Appliance Replication
  5. Protection Policies for Replication

Protection Policies for Replication

Replication for a protected database occurs when the following conditions are met:

  • On the upstream Recovery Appliance, a replication server configuration specifies a Recovery Appliance acting as a downstream replication Recovery Appliance (CREATE_REPLICATION_SERVER).

  • On the upstream Recovery Appliance, a protection policy is associated with the replication server configuration (ADD_REPLICATION_SERVER).

  • On the upstream Recovery Appliance, a protected database is assigned (ADD_DB) to the protection policy associated with the replication server configuration.

  • On the downstream Recovery Appliance, a protection policy for the replicated backups must exist (CREATE_PROTECTION_POLICY), and the protected databases must be added to it (ADD_DB).

When you complete configuration of the protection policy on the upstream Recovery Appliance, the Recovery Appliance immediately replicates only the last full backup for each database protected by the policy. The backup can be either the most recent level 0 backup received, or a virtual full backup based on the most recent level 1 backup received, whichever is more recent. The upstream Recovery Appliance replicates new backups as it receives them.