Hi all,
I’ve recently setup a remote office for a client, and thats all working fine.
They use a DB application to wrap jobs into correspondence, drawings, plans, projects etc and it has a data folder over 100 GB.
The users in the remote office need access to this application and the managers want this to function as quick, or as close to the main office.
Now the DB part of this app will be fine over the site 2 site VPN, but the data itself (we’re talking 5-10 MB drawings here) needs to be local-enter DFS.
I’ve been playing with DFS over the last week and I think this will wwork fine, but I’ve got an issue with initial replication, as it’ll be over 100GB over a 2Mbps SDSL IPSec VPN link!
I wanted to move a copy of the data to the remote server and then setup replication, thinking that the server would ignore files which matched, but after testing I see this isnt the case, it created a sub directory called ‘NtFrs_PreExisting___See_EventLog’ on the remote server and dumps everything that existed before replication started into there, then begins fill replication!.
Is there a way to tell FRS not to replicate items already in place?