Hello all,
as I wrote to my previous question, I just started "playing" with DFSR, so I am not quite sure if I follow the right paths. I will explain you what I want to do and please help me to correct any mistakes.
So I have a File Server FS1 which used to be one of our File Servers. This machine will be replaced by a vritual machine, the FS2 which has Win Server 2012 and much more space. So the plan was to enable the DFSR between these 2 servers and after everything is migrated, then we will decommission the old machine.
The only data I need to copy from the old server is the users' home folder (my documents, favorites etc). It's a folder of 180GB, so this makes the things simpler I guess.
What I did: I created a replication group between FS1 and FS2 , having FS1 as the source.
Everything worked fine and at the end I was missing some files on the FS2 and this is where the problem started. Under the folder target I disabled old server so people cannot access it and change things, and I also made it Read Only. What I didn't do was to make the FS2 as source and FS1 as destination (as I said I miss some files from FS1 , so I decided not to stop the replication until everything goes to the FS2 - I know exactly which files I miss).
The problem I have now is that the Staging folder in FS2 became huge, almost the size of the folder I replicated. Do you know why? The staging folder in the old server is 18GB.
Any help will be more than appreciated.
Thank you!