Reprotecting an SRM site
After you failover the workload from a protected site to the recovery site, the recovery site has no protection enabled for the new workload that it has begun hosting. SRM provides a method to enable protection of the recovery site. This method is called reprotect.
A reprotect operation will reverse the direction of the replication, hence the recovery site is designated as the new protected site. The reprotect operation can only be done on a recovery plan with the Recovery complete status. Also, keep in mind that a reprotect operation can only be executed when you have repaired the failed site and made it available to become a recovery site.
For instance, let's assume that site-A and site-B are the protected and recovery ...
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