Gluster users - Nov 2023 - Is there a way to short circuit the georeplication process?

We have an application that is storing an insane number of small files.

We have run some tests with enabling geo-replication and letting it run 
but on our smallest data set it takes 10 days and our largest data set 
will likely take over 100 days.

Would there be any way to take a copy of the data brick and convert that 
into a replicated image and then enable replication from the time of the 
snapshot?

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