We have two servers in a cluster and a task scheduled to replicate all mail databases every 30 minutes. I have a case where a user mail database is 46MB on one server but 987MB on another. If I open each database I find that they both contain exactly the same documents. I have checked ACL’s, compacted the database, checked replication settings, etc and nothing I do will reduce the size of the larger database. Any ideas?
Subject: *A database size includes view indexes, I assume your smaller replica does not have many view indexes built compared to the bigger one
Subject: to confirm
open the admin client on each server and examine the views for the replicas (right click the db and choose “Manage Views”. see if the larger replica has more views built as Howard suggests. This is likely the case.
Subject: view index?
I have checked the view indexes on both databases and they are under 1MB. So that’s not the problem.
Subject: New replica/copy
I would create a new replica of the 987MB db and see how big that is.