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5.1 Administration
This section contains administration information such as managing your cluster, data, users, jobs and security information such as configuring your security environment and auditing.
Administrator Guide
Managing Data with Volumes
Working with Mirror Volumes
Local Mirroring
Creating a Local Mirror in the MapR Control System

Creating a Local Mirror in the MapR Control System

Procedure

Log on to the MapR Control System.
In the navigation pane, select MapR-FS > Volumes.
Click the New Volume button.
In the New Volume dialog, specify the following values:
- Select Local Mirror Volume.
- Enter a name for the mirror volume in the Mirror Name field. If the mirror is on the same cluster as the source volume, the source and mirror volumes must have different names.
- Enter the source volume name (not mount point) in the Source Volume Name field.
- To automate mirroring, select a schedule corresponding to critical data, important data, normal data, or a user-defined schedule from the Mirror Schedule dropdown menu.