Hi all,
This is more of a technical clarification than a problem we're having...
Firstly, we have a bunch of file servers in various EMEA regions, which are set up to replicate back to a central hub server at our UK datacentre in order to take backups. These spoke servers are the only location where the data is changed.
We are in the middle of migrating the hub server over to Windows Server 2008R2, meaning we can use the supported one-way replication method instead of disabling one end of the member connections.
My question is this:
Which member do we need to make read-only? This would have seemed obvious to me, however there is some confusion amongst our systems engineers.
I would have said that you make the spoke member read-only, as you don't want the hub replicating anything back to it. This makes perfect sense to me, but not everyone is so sure.
Could someone please clarify?