I think you can adjust the size of replication messages. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Hill [mailto:JHill@;jennison.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:09 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: PF replication
Is there a limit to the number of public folders one can replicate at any one time? I have maybe 400 PFs, all but ten of which were until recently homed on my 5.5 server. We'd like to get rid of the 5.5 box so we've been trying for several months now to replicate the folders to our E2K cluster. The first time we tried this I did all the folders at once: I used ESM to add the E2K server name in the Replicas tab of each top-level folder and I propagated changes to the children. Within a couple of days I noticed that some folders appeared emptier, and I soon confirmed that not only was replication not 100% successful, but some of the E2K replicas were actually *losing* data over time. One folder had 1281 items on the 5.5 server but 1235 on the E2K. Two days later the E2K server had 1201 items. Ten days later it had 50. Since only one user had the delete permissions, I knew I couldn't blame the users. I removed the E2K server from the Replicas tab, waited a day and tried again, this time changing replication priority to Urgent. Same result. I ran isintegs on the 5.5 and the E2K public stores and even replaced the E2K public store outright a couple of times. Nothing has helped. Then I tried doing smaller and smaller groups of folders with priority at Urgent and at Normal. Same result. Finally about a week ago I did one batch of 100 folders. After comparing 5.5 Admin's Public Folder Resources against ESM's Public Folder Instances, I determined that about 60 folders had fully replicated, so I removed the 5.5 replica from those folders. I then stopped and restarted replication on the remaining 40, and got about ten more. The next try netted four more, and since then I've been replicating three folders at a time, which has been successful but slow. Any ideas about what the problem might be? The E2K Cluster is running W2K AS SP2 and E2K SP3. The SRS server has W2K Server SP2 and E2K SP3. E2K SP3 has been applied to the AD Connector server as well. The 5.5 box is running NT4SP6a and E5.5 SP4. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
