Hello,
So I'm having a strange issue here. I'm trying to set up a replication group between two sites (Denver and LA) with little success. I've tried setting up a test replication group between these two members with a directory structure that is very simple. Shared folder is called Test, RG is called DFSTest. When I set the primary member as the correct server (Denver) within the test group, the files replicate to LA as they should and new files that are added/deleted are syncing as expected.
The reason for setting this up is to get a large volume of files, approximately 1.5tb over 13m files to LA from Denver. We've done this in reverse recently, I set up the RG to replicate from LA to Denver so that we could rebuild and the LA box, which was completed. The LA box is currently Win2k8 R2, and the hope is to replicate the dataset back from Denver so we can upgrade that box as well (Currently Win2k3). Both of these boxes were in a namespace serving content, so now Denver is doing all of that while LA sits out of commission with no data on it.
The issue is here: When I set up the replication group, I select Denver as the primary member, as the content we're trying to replicate sits on that box. Whenever I do this, it seems that LA is taking the role, deleting some files on the Denver server (which is in production, so this can't happen) so every time I do this, I replace the deleted files and try again. The folder structure never gets created on the LA box as it should, and the replicated folder remains empty. I've tried several times without any progress.
Could anyone offer any insight on what's going on here?
Thanks!