Recovering production for replicas

You use the RecoverProduction for Replica Copy action in ESI to restore a specific copy as a production copy. This restoration action starts from the selected snapshot (point of time) and restores the production source from this copy. The production source, data that is newer than the selected point in time is rolled back and rewritten with version in the copy. The copy’s journal is preserved and remains valid.

To recover production source with a replica copy:

1. In the left pane of the ESI window, select a replication service.

2. Click Consistency Groups and select a consistency group.

3. In the Actions pane, click RecoverProduction for Replica Copy.

4. On the Replica Copy page, specify the following, and then click Next.

   Field	Description
   Bookmark	Unique name for the bookmark
   Mark as	Select Crash-Consistent for immediate recovery to the time of a crash with no data loss. Or select Application Consistent for recovery consistent with application settings for failovers.
   Define a Consolidation Policy for this Snapshot	Select to define the consolidation policy.
   Never consolidate this snapshot	Select to prevent ESI from consolidating the snapshot with this bookmark.
   This snapshot must survive Daily (Weekly or Monthly) consolidations	Select to keep the bookmark snapshot from consolidation until after Daily, Weekly, or Monthly RecoverPoint snapshot consolidations.

5. In the Review Input Parameters, review the parameters, and then click Next.

6. In the Progress page, click Next.

   11. Note: Click More Information for more progress details. If a problem occurs, an error message appears with options to resume or roll back the process. After the error is resolved, click Resume to resume the process. Click Rollback to revert to the previously executed step.

   7. In the Summary page, click Finish.