Source servers page command menus
You can perform a variety of actions, control data replication, and manage your drill and recovery instances for one or more source servers through the command menu buttons. Select one or more servers on the Source servers page and choose the Actions, Replication, or Initiate recovery job menu to control your source servers.
Actions menu
The Actions menu allows you to perform the following actions:
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Add servers – Choosing this option will redirect you to the AWS Replication Agent installation instructions.
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Create extended source servers – Choose this to start a wizard to create extended source servers from source servers replicating into staging accounts, in multi-account setups.
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Edit DRS launch settings – Choose this option to edit a single or multiple selected source servers for their DRS launch settings.
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Edit EC2 launch template – Choose this option to enter edit a single or multiple selected source servers for their EC2 launch template.
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Edit post-launch action settings – Choose this option to activate or deactivate post-launch actions for a single or multiple selected source servers.
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View server details – Choose this option to enter the source server's Server details view.
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Disconnect from AWS – Choose this option to disconnect the selected server from AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS.
When the Disconnect X server/s from service dialog appears, click Disconnect.
Important
This will uninstall the AWS Replication Agent from the source server and data replication will stop for the source server. This action will not affect any Drill or Recovery instances that have been launched for this source server, but you will no longer be able to identify which source servers your Amazon EC2 instances correspond to.
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Delete server - Choose the Delete server option to permanently delete a source server from AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. This will remove all information related to the server from the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery service. You can only delete servers that have been disconnected from AWS. You will need to reinstall the AWS Replication Agent on a deleted source server to add it back to AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
When the Delete X servers dialog appears, click Permanently delete.
Initiate recovery job menu
The Initiate recovery job menu allows you to start drills and recoveries by launching drill and recovery instances as part of the overall failback process. You can learn more about the entire failback and failover process with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery in the Performing a failback and failover with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery documentation.
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Initiate drill – Choose this option to launch a drill instance for this server or group of servers for the purpose of testing your recovery solution. You should perform periodic drills in order to ensure that you are ready for recovery. Learn more about launching Drill instances in AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
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Initiate recovery – Choose this option to launch a Recovery instances for this server or group of servers for the purpose of recovering the server in the event of a disaster. Learn more about launching Recovery instances in AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
Replication menu
The Replication menu allows you to perform the following actions:
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Stop replication – You can stop replication of a source server at any time. After you stop the replication, you will no longer be charged for the ongoing replication and the staging area infrastructure. Changes will not be reported by the agent to the replication server, and all saved snapshots will be deleted, leaving this instance unprotected. The agent remains installed during this process. If you want to replicate this EC2 instance again, simply click the Start replication button. This will trigger an initial sync.
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Start replication – You can start replication of a previously stopped source server. After you start the replication, the agent replicates the selected instances.
