Synchronizing Data on the Source and the Bucket

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Wasabi Cloud NAS (WCN) enables you to synchronize the contents of a source with a bucket. Synchronizing source data with the bucket is a method of a disaster recovery plan. In the event that a replicated file does not have a nearline counterpart on the source volume, WCN automatically creates it as a stub file after synchronizing the contents with the bucket.

If versioning is enabled and there is more than one version of a file on the bucket, WCN restores the version that is most recently used on the source, even if it is not the latest version of the file.

When synchronizing source data with the bucket, you can:

  • Synchronize with Target 
  • Synchronize Recursively
With a NAS source, you need to synchronize the contents of the control folder and the bucket. When missing files are restored in the control folder in the form of stub files, you can retrieve them manually on the source.

To synchronize source and bucket contents, follow the steps below.

  1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to a folder in which to synchronize the contents with the bucket.
  2. Right-click the folder.
  3. Select Wasabi Cloud NAS.
  4. To synchronize the contents of the folder with the bucket, click Import from bucket.
  5. Optionally, to synchronize the contents recursively (i.e., the contents of the selected folder and the contents of all its subfolders), click Import recursively from bucket.