Is there a way to “seed” our initial Cloud Recovery Service by sending an image on an external hard drive to the data center?
A.Yes, we can seed the initial mirror. The process is simple: create the original mirror set so that the file structure is created on our HEROguard Cloud. Next, stop the mirror on the production box, copy the “data only” in the same file structure such as D: data volume and/or E: data volume, etc. Then we apply the data to the HEROguard Cloud setup. Next, we turn on the original mirror job and allow our software to do a “difference mirror” which would send the “system state” information quite quickly since it is relatively small and then the data set would send any changes that occurred since the original copy was made. We then can have a fully mirrored and replicated copy of your entire server within hours of the “seeding” process.
