Scheduling Initial Replica Creation

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Published : September 27, 2005

Time zones can be a confusing issue when scheduling initial replica creation. Initial replica creation is scheduled according to the time on the DPM server and occurs at the scheduled time on the file server.

Initial replica creation jobs are scheduled by using the time of the DPM server; you cannot schedule a job to run at a time that is already in the past for the DPM server, even if that time is still in the future for the file server. In our example of a DPM server in Berlin that is protecting a file server in Reykjavik, there is a two hour difference between the times of the two servers. Therefore, at 9:00 P.M. Berlin time, you cannot schedule an initial replica creation job for the file server in Reykjavik at 8:00 P.M. Reykjavik time.

Suppose the DPM server in Berlin is also protecting a file server in Sofia, which is an hour ahead of Berlin. At 8:00 P.M. in Berlin, you schedule an initial replica creation job for the file server in Sofia to begin at 8:30 P.M. You can schedule it for 8:30 P.M. because that time is in the future for the DPM server. However, because it is already past 8:30 P.M. in Sofia, the initial replica creation will begin immediately.