Hi All,
As you know, when working with Off Site Locations (for example a 2nd UNC path) with System Recovery, when a backup completes SR will make sure all your backup data from your primary backup location is copied to the Off Site secondary location. I've also noticed that, if you have 3 base images + incrementals, if any file from any base image isnt present on the off site location then it gets re-copied from the primary. Thus keeping both the primary and secondary in sync. No issue there.
My question being, what happens if there are images on the secondary that are not on the primary location? (Due to failure of the primary)
Does SR
- copy BACK any missing images to re-populate the primary, not loosing any data and resync both locations,
- will it REMOVE the files on the secondary due to them not being on the primary,
- do nothing with the images on the secondary which effectivly will orphan them for manual removal,
- somthing else?
Luckily we have not delt with this as a scenario yet and I didnt want to 'test' with a live site so currently the OffSite Secondary location is turned off so SR cannot get to it.
Thanks all
Wayne.