Hi there, RP and RP4VMs do write to the replica volumes/VMDKs while in direct IA. We track the changes in the journal of both production and replica volumes as a bitmap (so only metadata is written there). When disabling direct image access, it's a short init and as part of it, only the changes are being replicated.  Hope that helps, Idan Kentor RecoverPoint Corporate Systems Engineering
This might be a goofy question, but when in direct access mode, are the writes being written to the replica volume?  I ask because when I remove a CG from direct access mode after X amount of time, it doesn't have to do a full resync, so I'm curious how it gets rid of the writes and knows to just replicate the changes if the writes already occurred.
Recoverpoint Direct Access Mode and it's writes????