A method, system, computer system, and computer-readable medium for
maintaining up-to-date, consistent copies of primary data without the
need to replicate modified data when the data were modified as a result
of an operation that is not an application-driven write operation
captured during replication. Selected storage management operations are
performed on the primary and secondary data stores at points in time when
the data are the same to ensure that the data stored within the data
stores remain consistent. These selected storage management operations
include operations that produce modified data stored in the primary data
store, where a portion of the modified data are not replicated to a
secondary node. Other types of storage management operations are selected
to be performed on both the primary and secondary data stores, where the
operations do not directly change data in the primary data store, but may
affect data stored in the primary data store.