Controlling Bandwidth Used By File Replication Service

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Kelly Lim

Hi. We have limited bandwidth between offices and use file
replication service to replicate files between our DFS
shares. If and when many of the files change on one
server's share, the replication uses up a lot of our
bandwidth. Does anybody know how to throttle the file
replication service to use a limited amount of the
available bandwidth? Thanks.

Kelly
 
Try posting to microsoft.public.windows.server.dfs_frs.

There isn't a way to throttle FRS replication bandwidth. But for DFS, you
can control when replication is enabled, so you could turn on replication
only during non-peak times of the day and over weekends. This will
naturally increase replication latency, but that might be okay for your
situation. Beware that FRS will stop replicating files when it hits the
replication unavailable time. If it was in the middle of a file, it will
get dropped and need to be restarted. If you ever got a file that was so
big that it couldn't complete replication in the time the connection was
open, you'd be stuck.

Take a look at the following document. Search for "How Replication
Schedules Work."
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...erver2003/proddocs/techref/w2k3tr_frs_how.asp

--Richard

Please post FRS related questions to microsoft.public.windows.server.dfs_frs
and prefix the subject line with "FRS:" to make it easier to spot. Note
that FRS is used to replicate SYSVOL on domain controllers and DFS root and
link targets.

For additional FRS resources, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/frs.

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