Veritas File Replicator (VFR) lets you configure and control a system to automatically replicate the data in a source file system to a matching file system on any system over the network. This replication is performed incrementally after the initial synchronization by transferring the deltas between successive versions of the data. The vfradmin utility lets you manage and control the file replication feature. The utility lets you view and modify the configuration of a replication job as well as start or stop the replication job.

The configuration and the status files for an individual file system are saved under the lost+found directory on that file system. This allows the replication system to access the data when storage devices are moved between nodes in a clustered environment.

Before starting a replication job, you must run the scheduler daemon (vxfstaskd) and the replication target daemon (vxfsrepld).