After you Failover the workload from a protected site to the recovery site, the recovery site has no protection enabled for the new workload that it has begun hosting. SRM provides a method to enable protection of the recovery site. This method is called Reprotect.

A Reprotect operation will reverse the direction of the replication, thus designating the recovery site as the new protected site. The Reprotect operation can only be done on a Recovery Plan with the Recovery Complete status. Also, keep in mind that a Reprotect operation can only be executed when you have repaired the failed site and made it available to become a recovery site.

For instance, let's assume that SITE-A and SITE-B are the protected and recovery sites, respectively. If workload at SITE-A were failed over to SITE-B, then to Reprotect SITE-B, SITE-A should be made accessible. This would mean fixing the problems that caused the failure at SITE-A.

The following steps show how to perform the Reprotect operation...