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Reverse a replication relationship

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Reverse a replication relationship so that the target volume becomes the source volume.

After you stop replication and make changes to the target volume, you can replicate those changes back to the source volume. This process is common in a disaster recovery scenario in which you operate on the target volume for a while and want to switch roles of the volumes.

About this task

When you reverse and resume a replication, it switches the source and target roles of your volumes; the target volume becomes the new source volume, and the source volume becomes the new target volume. The reverse operation also overwrites the contents of the new target volume with the contents of the new source volume. If you reverse a replication twice, the original replication direction re-establishes.

Note Any data written to the original source volume between the last data replication and the time that the source volume is disabled is not preserved.
Before you begin

Make sure that you know the current and future roles of your source and target volumes because changes on the new target volume are overwritten with the new source volume. If used incorrectly, you can experience unintended data loss.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Workload Factory console

  2. In Storage, select Go to storage inventory.

  3. In the FSx for ONTAP tab, click the three dots menu of the file system to update and then select Manage.

  4. From the file system overview, select the Replication relationships tab.

  5. In the Replication relationships tab, click the three dots menu of the replication relationship to reverse.

  6. Select Reverse relationship.

  7. In the Reverse relationship dialog, click Reverse.