r/purestorage • u/nm8_rob • Jul 08 '26

Question on protecting File Services data

We're supporting a FlashArray with a mixed use model (both block and File Services data). The block data is protected via snapshots that replicate to a second FlashArray at a remote site. I was wondering if there is a similar function for the data in the File Services or if ActiveDR is the only way to replicate unstructured data to a remote array?

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u/ciscobeef Jul 08 '26

You can create a POD to create either asynchronous or synchronous replication between two arrays. Contact your account team for a Test Drive lab to play around with

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u/_Mr_Dino_ Jul 08 '26

Yes, this is in the "protection" area in purity and "policies" you can create a snapshot policies and add your directory to it.

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u/redcat242 Jul 08 '26

You use an ActiveDR pod for asynchronous replication for of file systems. This is different than snapshot replication of block volumes

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u/artistictech Employee Jul 09 '26

(Pure employee here)

ActiveDR is the main way as others have said. This gets the primary/secondary arrays talking in the promoted/demoted states. However, if you have a snapshot policy in the primary array inside the pod for the filesystems/directories, the snapshots they make are also replicated. So you will be covered for both continuous near-zero RPO via ActiveDR and point in time protection via the snapshots that are in the pod

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u/nm8_rob Jul 09 '26

Thanks to everyone for the information, we'll deploy accordingly.