Native replication lets you replicate between repositories connected to a wide area network (WAN) with TCP/IP protocol.
Replication enables you to set rules (depending on your required replication needs) for replicating data objects across ProtecTIER® repositories. The ProtecTIER repositories can be different in size as well as physical layout. Since ProtecTIER deduplicates data before storing it, only the changes are transferred to the remote site. You define the rules for replicating data objects in replication policies on a repository.
A replication grid is a logical set of repositories that can replicate from one to the other. The ProtecTIER Replication Manager is a server that remotely manages the configuration of the grid (for example, grid creation or deletion, repository membership in the grid, and so on). In most cases, the ProtecTIER Replication Manager resides on the ProtecTIER server.
Before defining replication policies, however, you must first create physical connections between the repositories. To create physical connections, you define replication groups. Depending on your environment, you create replication groups in either "many-to-one" or "many-to-many" topologies.
In a "many-to-one" topology, you create replication groups in which source repositories can receive local backups and replicate to a single destination. The destination repository can then act as a Disaster Recovery site for any number of the source repositories, and still allow local backups, as well as replication, from the active source repositories.
In a "many-to-many" topology, you create replication groups where multiple repositories can replicate to each other. You can define a many-to-many replication group where each repository assumes the responsibility of a destination repository and can receive local backups, replicate data to remote repositories, and receive replicated data from remote repositories.