# Suspend data replication?

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/suspend-data-replication/1551>\
**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [July 31, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/suspend-data-replication/1551 "2019-07-31T06:01:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sraw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Sraw](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/Sraw)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/suspend-data-replication/1551/1 "2019-07-31T06:01:46Z")

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Let’s say I want to move one machine to another place. I mean, physically. Then this machine will absolutely be offline. Which will also trigger data replication among the existing ones.

Is it possible to suspend this process? As the physical migration can be completed in the expected time. So instead of migrating data from one to another and migrating back, we are thinking if it is possible to let the cluster wait for a while?

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**Author:** ![alexmiller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/alexmiller/32/326_2.png) [@alexmiller](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/alexmiller)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/suspend-data-replication/1551/2 "2019-08-01T09:42:58Z")

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There is a `maintenance` command added to `fdbcli` in 6.2 that I think you could use to do this. See [the help](https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/18194172e756203eb39e66e81f79ca46eb258ebb/fdbcli/fdbcli.actor.cpp#L555).

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**Author:** ![Sraw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Sraw](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/Sraw)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/suspend-data-replication/1551/3 "2019-08-01T09:57:00Z")

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Thanks! It looks like very good!