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ddoyley
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Posted - 2010-09-28 : 15:26:23
active passive cluster is the publisher. Separate distributor and separate subscriber. They are all running windows 2008 ent r2 and sql standard 2008 r2.

The publication was created and already has a subscriber. I went to check on the snapshot files which I have in the default snapshot folder and also going to a network share on the independent distributor machine. I noticed there were no files in the snapshot folder. It seems they were deleted after the snapshot was processed. When I checked the subscription options the snapshot always available was set to false and was grayed out so I am unable to change it. Was something missed during the setup process? Is there a way to change it now without recreating the whole thing. I would like the flexibility of being able to add another subscriber without having to wait for a snapshot to be generated.

ddoyley
Starting Member

3 Posts

Posted - 2010-09-29 : 18:58:49
I guess this wasn't as simple as I thought.
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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak

5072 Posts

Posted - 2010-09-30 : 09:26:36
Distribution cleanup job purges the snapshot folder.

See these links

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mangeshd/archive/2009/05/20/replication-snapshot-folder-cleanup.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151734.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188738.aspx
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