So, here’s the simple setup:
2 sites, each with their own file server (server standard 2008r2 fully updated)
100MB WAN link at each site
1.7TB shared drive
Replication schedule 64Mbps at night and 32Mbps during the day
200GB staging folder, 2GB Conflict/Deleted folder
No folder quotas
No Antivirus
No Firewall between the two machines or domain controllers
No errors in the log
For a long time after initial replication, everything was running great and fast. Then there was a power outage at site 1 that outlasted the battery backups and the two sites got out of sync. Once we brought the server back up it wasn’t replicating and giving an error 1315 (complaining about the vector size). After much digging and coming up empty, I decided the easiest way to get rid of the error would be to recreate the replication group. This worked! After a few hours the folder at site 2 went from “uninitialized” to “awaiting initial replication”. However, several hours later, the replication is still going at about 1500 Bytes per second, occasionally jumping to 3000Bps. With the available link speed, I would imagine that it should be much, much, much faster than that.
At this point I would expect to see something in the error log telling me what the holdup is, but it’s not showing any errors. Currently the staging folder is around 73GB and well under the high water mark.
If it stays at the current 24Kbps this is going to take forever to get back into sync.
Any help is much appreciated!
