Manually Update Your Local Directory

Prerequisites

  1. Review Best Practices for File Replication.

  2. You must have an initialized repository (see Initialize a Repository).

  3. You must have a registered repository (see Register an Initialized Repository).

  4. You must have a repository checked out to your local file system (see Checkout a Repository).

Do the following to manually update your local directory with any changes in your S3 repository. For example:

Note: To perform this action, the owner of the file system directory must be a registered user (see Register an Initialized Repository).

  1. Log in to the FlexSync Dashboard.

    Do the following to access your FlexSync dashboard.

    Prerequisites

    • You will need a FlexSync user account before you can create a replication task. See Step 4: Manage FlexSync Users.
    • In order to access the FlexSync GUI, the appliance host name must be resolvable through a DNS name or IP address. If you use a DNS name, it must be resolvable on the DNS or it must have a local entry in the local appliance /etc/hosts file.

    1. Access the StorNext User Interface (new UI introduced in StorNext 7.0.1).

    2. On the top navigation, click Services. The Services page appears.

    3. Under the Service Name heading, click the service name that corresponds with your FlexSync service.

      The FlexSync dashboard appears.

  2. In the left navigation, click the File System Browser icon.

    The File System Browser page appears.

  3. On the File System Browser page, do the following:

    1. Select your file system, hostgroup, host, and repository.

    2. Navigate to the directory or sub-directory you want to update.

    3. Click the Update this folder icon.

      The Update <name of folder> folder dialog appears.

  4. Do the following in the Update <name of folder> folder dialog:

    1. Enter the path to your root folder in the Path to Root Folder field.

    2. Specify a conflict resolution for this update.

    Note: By default, the Full Scan and Ignore Missing options are enabled.

  5. Click Apply. If successful, Update completed successfully appears on the page.