With Jumbo frame sizes (tried all different options) we get an Replication Error 26. Only seems to work at default size
However, I believe I did find source of the problem.
Backup Exec runs a nightly append (and weekly full backup) to our source TS.
It reclaims disk space by overwriting the oldest "media" (the backup files).
It seems that the replication sees the file changing when these files are being over written, but because it so large (10GB) and takes a while to backup, it sees the file changing more than once so it starts copying the file repetitively.
If I reboot both stations in the morning, and restart replication, it works properly until the backup begins again that evening and the files get over written, which triggers the duplicated replication problem.
Quite simply, the replication process is not smart enough to stop copying the file when it sees it an updated version of the file of the same name (my humble opinion it should delete the temp file and start replicating the file over again, not waste time and bandwidth making duplicate copies)
I called tech support with this bit of deduction, looking for a glimmer of hope, and for the very first time I was very disappointed with the level of support I received. The woman I spoke to was not helpful at all, and basically said it was our problem that our files were being over written during replication. Is this not what happens to all files on any replication source TS??
Anything to try before I scrap replication?
Very frustrating for us, as we laid this scenario out in detail to pre-sales tech support who told us this would be "No problem at all"