FRS: how many days should i wait - unbelieveable! PLEASE HELP!

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hi

now i see since 24hours the ntfrs.jdb is growing and growing - but
replication isn't starting. how many days does this first replication
takes??? after 24h the size of the ntfrs.jdb is about 470MB and
growing... i don't know what this service is doing in background... i
have about 580.000 files in xxx directories.

is this normal??? is the ntfrs.jdb first filled with all information
befor replication starts with the first file? i think this is very
unbelieveable and i'm currently not sure if this is normal and
everything will work if finalized!

isn't there any way to speed up this???


PLEASE HELP
Alex
 
Cross-posting to microsoft.public.windows.server.dfs_frs.



FRS is supposed to do that, and there's no way to speed it up except faster
hardware and configuring your server well. If you can get the replica root,
database, and staging folder on separate disks, that can help. Of course,
having fast disks, CPU, and lots of memory is a good thing.



Your number of files of 580,000 is of concern. This is a large number for
FRS. Also, in your post, you mention having "xxx directories." If "xxx" is
very big, that is a factor. FRS can be more sensitive to the number of
files and directories than the amount of data. Replicating a thousand 1 KB
files is harder for it than a single 1 MB file.


Take a look at the following article. It describes how FRS works.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...erver2003/proddocs/techref/w2k3tr_frs_how.asp


At this point, your FRS is iterating through all the files in the replica
root and creating records in its database for each directory and file. Once
this process is done, it'll be able to start replicating this data with its
partners.

--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.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
hi
FRS is supposed to do that, and there's no way to speed it up except faster
hardware and configuring your server well. If you can get the replica root,
database, and staging folder on separate disks, that can help. Of course,
having fast disks, CPU, and lots of memory is a good thing.
Click to expand...
yeah - not the fastest systems (Dual PIII 800, raid5, scsi 10k) and we
run under production load. therefor i will be very HAPPY if this copy
will be faster as now! this is replication for webserver failover... i
cannot switch the second webserver on without files... and i cannot
realy wait 5 days after a reinstallation of a webserver... this is a
NO-GO... in past i used only robocopy. it is faster!
Your number of files of 580,000 is of concern. This is a large number for
FRS. Also, in your post, you mention having "xxx directories." If "xxx" is
very big, that is a factor. FRS can be more sensitive to the number of
files and directories than the amount of data. Replicating a thousand 1 KB
files is harder for it than a single 1 MB file.
Click to expand...
tons of very small files... this is a webserver... all about KB's max
35kb. and 200.000 dirs or more... :-(((
Take a look at the following article. It describes how FRS works.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...erver2003/proddocs/techref/w2k3tr_frs_how.asp
Click to expand...
thank you - i know about and i read befor implementation... but it
hasn't aswered why this ntfrs is growing and no files is replicated for
about 48 hours.
At this point, your FRS is iterating through all the files in the replica
root and creating records in its database for each directory and file. Once
this process is done, it'll be able to start replicating this data with its
partners.
Click to expand...
do you know how big the ntfrs.jdb will be per 100.000 files? 128MB? i
only have 1.7Gb space... :-(


Alex
 
isn't there any way to copy files from one server to the other with
robocopy for e.f. and ntfrs only checks if there are differences and
replicate only the differences?


Alex
 
shit - ultrasound requires the buggy .NET Framework 1.1 - this will kill
every Internet Explorer... i don't like to install this shit.


Alex
 
Only the Ultrasound console (GUI) requires the .NET Framework 1.1. You can
install the console on any machine and point it to your Ultrasound database.

--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.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
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