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DFS not working for large files

Hello I have DFS installed and in use on 3 servers in my environment. It was working perfectly for a long time, except it won't replicate my large 6.2GB backup files. The files in question are .bak, and each is 6.2GB. I have run the DFS health check, and saw that it replicated its test file, and it shows that the connection is established and working. I increased the staging quota from 4GB to 20GB, thinking that it needed to be at least the size of what's being transferred, but I now know what the staging quota really means.

BTW all 3 servers are server 2008

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inferno521

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I should have thought of that(.bak, .tmp being excluded). Its like that for most backup programs, so they don't backup backups. I guess I dismissed it because there doesn't seem to be any user defined exemptions

lnkevin

Other work around is use robocopy or xcopy batch file to schedule file .bak transfer.

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inferno521

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Thanks for the advice Inkevin, but I'm trying to automate this as much as possible. If I were to write a batch, wouldn't I have to specify the filename specifically(or use wildcards)?

The .bak files are generated through sequel and follow a naming convention(date), I wanted to use DFS because of the ability to choose how much bandwidth to allocate to this. The files are transferred from our co-lo to our home office, and our site-to-site connection speed is about 500KB. so the ability to throttle down the transfer speed during business hours and ramp it up is key to me. Also DFS is easier to understand for my manager, when it works, because of the GUI.

lnkevin

You can either use wild card or copy entire folder with an option new files only.... You can use copy switch to replace files or backup mode (recommended). Open command line and type:
robocopy /?

it will give you a list of the options you can use.

K