Windchill System Administrator's Guide

External Vaulting or Replication Preparation Phase
1. Create a replica site through the Site Administration graphical user interface.
Make sure that master-replica communication is working.
2. Create a file vault host, FvHost, on the replica site.
3. Create a replica vault, rv, on the master site.
4. Create replica folders, ReplicaFolders, for the replica vault, rv.
5. Mount the replica folders, ReplicaFolders, to the file vault, FvHost, on the
master site. For this example, the mounts you make are called FvMounts.
Create the mounts with attention to the following:
In order for the local replication to work properly, paths of each of the
FvMounts of the FvHosts on the Master site must exactly match the path of
the FvMounts of the FvHost on the Replica site for all the folders.
For example: If the mount path for one of the folders on the host at a local site
is C:\tmp\1, after completing the fourth phase of local replication,
Finalization,the content must be found on the replica site at path C:\tmp\1.
6. Enable the replica folders, ReplicaFolders.
7. Enable the replica vault, rv.
Note: At this time, all of the objects you have created (vaults, folders, and
mounts) are not visible through External Vaulting Configuration dialog.
Replication Rule Creation Phase
Replication Phase
Create file vault policy rules, FvPolicyRules, for the replica vault, rv, either
through FvLoader or the rule creation graphical user interface.
1. In wt.properties set wt.fv.localReplica=true. If you are not setting properties
through a graphical user interface or in a mapping rules file, you add or edit
properties with the xconfmanager utility, which is discussed elsewhere in this
guide.
2. Stop and restart the system.
3. Launch Replication on the replica vault, rv, through the Content Replication
Scheduler dialog.
4. Wait for the completion of the process.
5. Physically move the content of the folders of the replica vault, rv, to the
replica site, into the predefined place.
Configuring External File Vaulting or Replication With FvLoader 5-9