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Failing over files and folders jobs

When a failover condition has been met, failover will be triggered automatically if you disabled the wait for user option during your failover configuration. If the wait for user before failover option is enabled, you will be notified in the console when a failover condition has been met. At that time, you will need to trigger it manually from the console when you are ready.

If you are using a files and folders job in a standalone to cluster configuration, the Failover button will be enabled once a mirror is complete. Do not failover as unexpected results may occur. Failover is not supported for files and folders jobs in a standalone to cluster configuration.

On the Manage Jobs page, highlight the job that you want to failover and click Failover or Cutover in the toolbar.
Select the type of failover to perform.

Failover to live data—Select this option to initiate a full, live failover using the current data on the target. The target will stand in for the source by assuming the network identity of the failed source. User and application requests destined for the source server or its IP addresses are routed to the target.
Perform test failover—This option is not available for files and folders jobs.
Failover to a snapshot—This option is not applicable to files and folders jobs.

Select how you want to handle the data in the target queue. You may want to check the amount of data in queue on the target by reviewing the Statistics or Performance Monitor.

Apply data in target queues before failover or cutover—All of the data in the target queue will be applied before failover begins. The advantage to this option is that all of the data that the target has received will be applied before failover begins. The disadvantage to this option is depending on the amount of data in queue, the amount of time to apply all of the data could be lengthy.
Discard data in the target queues and failover or cutover immediately—All of the data in the target queue will be discarded and failover will begin immediately. The advantage to this option is that failover will occur immediately. The disadvantage is that any data in the target queue will be lost.

When you are ready to begin failover, click Failover.

IPv6 addresses on the source will be set to DHCP on the target after failover. Update them to static addresses manually, if needed.

If your NICs were configured for network load balancing (NLB), you will have to reconfigure that after failover.