Hi,
We need to do some shuffling around on our DFS servers. Four 2008R2 servers are deployed, all 4 are replicating all folders, and only one serves as the referral target for all folders. On one of the servers (not a referral target) we need to rebuild disk that holds replicated folders. So the process would look like this:
- Disable replication (Replication > Memberships > right click entry for that server > disable. This will automatically remove entry under Namespaces > Folder Targets as well.
- Do what we need to do on the disk / folder, and then re-enable replication. Most of the files at this point will be robocopied from another server to speed up replication, but some will be missing as it is a big folder and changes are written to it constantly.
Once we re-enable replication replication for that member, a Folder Targets entry is added under namespaces and is automatically enabled. This will create a problem for us because even though we can disable this server as referral target in 2 seconds after replication is enabled, it is possible some clients will pickup this referral target and will be looking at an outdated copy, until referral cache expires.
Is there any way to disable this behavior, and allow server to become part of replication group without it becoming a referral target automatically? If not, the only option we may have is to set referral cache duration to 1 second?
Thanks