Well, I finally pulled the triger and upgraded to a 3U server. This was my first time to go through the replication process and I learned a lot of things that I did not know. If you have gone through this before you probably already know all of this but I thought it would be helpful for the people going through this the first time to have an idea of what happens.
1) K says it takes approximately 1 day for each 1TB of data that needs to be replicated. In my case, I had 12TB so this estimate was 12 days. The actual was 10.5 days so a little faster than expected.
2) The notes say you can actually replicate up to five source servers to the same destination server simultaneously. I didn't do this since there are drawbacks. I don't know if doing these simultaneously slows things down or if would actaully save time to do this.
3) Any source server you are relicating from is UNAVAILABLE for use during the entire process. Because of this I didn't want to tie up both my systems by doing simultaneous replications. I wanted to be able to access the content on the server that was not being copied.
4) The content on the destination server can be accessed and viewed as it is copes over AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A PLAYER CONNECTED TO IT. Two caveats: you need to have your vault connected to the destination server to not have the BR content "greyed out". Also, the new server needs to be registered with the store otherwise all downloaded content is "greyed out". This is the part I didn't do correctly as I didn't do this before starting the process. Once replication has started you can't register the system as this will interupt the process (it restarts the server).
5) Once you start the replication process all you can see from the souce server is a replication report - it no longer shows up in the group with the rest of the equipment. While I was coping my 1U, I could see my C1 and M700 and I grouped the M500 to the 3U. If there was BR content on the 3U that I wanted to watch I would move the M700 over so that BR content would be authorized.
6) The replication report shows the total files copies out of the total to be copies and the estimated time left to complete. It then list each item as it is copied.
7) The date used for the "date content was added" is the date it was added to the SOURCE server and not the replicate date. The files are copied from newest to oldest.
That's all I have. I hope it helps to understand the process for people going through this the first time.
John
1) K says it takes approximately 1 day for each 1TB of data that needs to be replicated. In my case, I had 12TB so this estimate was 12 days. The actual was 10.5 days so a little faster than expected.
2) The notes say you can actually replicate up to five source servers to the same destination server simultaneously. I didn't do this since there are drawbacks. I don't know if doing these simultaneously slows things down or if would actaully save time to do this.
3) Any source server you are relicating from is UNAVAILABLE for use during the entire process. Because of this I didn't want to tie up both my systems by doing simultaneous replications. I wanted to be able to access the content on the server that was not being copied.
4) The content on the destination server can be accessed and viewed as it is copes over AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A PLAYER CONNECTED TO IT. Two caveats: you need to have your vault connected to the destination server to not have the BR content "greyed out". Also, the new server needs to be registered with the store otherwise all downloaded content is "greyed out". This is the part I didn't do correctly as I didn't do this before starting the process. Once replication has started you can't register the system as this will interupt the process (it restarts the server).
5) Once you start the replication process all you can see from the souce server is a replication report - it no longer shows up in the group with the rest of the equipment. While I was coping my 1U, I could see my C1 and M700 and I grouped the M500 to the 3U. If there was BR content on the 3U that I wanted to watch I would move the M700 over so that BR content would be authorized.
6) The replication report shows the total files copies out of the total to be copies and the estimated time left to complete. It then list each item as it is copied.
7) The date used for the "date content was added" is the date it was added to the SOURCE server and not the replicate date. The files are copied from newest to oldest.
That's all I have. I hope it helps to understand the process for people going through this the first time.
John
