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Disk space required to initialize subscriber

  • May 28, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    #210302

    Quick question- how much disk space is required on the subscriber to initialize a subscription (transactional replication) – does it have to copy the snapshot files (e.g. the bcp files etc) from the distributor, and then initialize the subscriber from this, or does it do this over the network?

    Does it differ depending on whether it is push or pull?

    Say I have a 10 GB snapshot on the distributor with a push subscription to the subscriber. Do I need 20 GB free on the subscriber? E.g. 10 GB to receive the snapshot files + 10 GB for the subscriber DB? Or just 10 GB for the subscriber DB which is initialized from the snapshot files over the network?

    Thanks in advance for any help with this

  • May 29, 2009 at 7:33 am

    #1002037

    You can specify where you want to do the snapshot. At the time of setting up the publication, you specify which drive on which server it should be. Make sure that the Service account has the rights to read and write into that directory.

    -Roy

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