Permanently clear replication history

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Last week, our computer room overheated due to a faulty A/C unit, prompting an emergency server shutdown. After getting everything running again, our primary Domino server decided to move the time ahead three months and creating the dreaded “Time is too far in the future” error on lots of our databases. For reference, here is IBM’s fix for that problem: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21161751

While trying to fix that on the server, my users are having problems as well. Their Notes clients keep populating the replication history with the faulty futuristic date, which causes Notes to ignore replicating anything dated before that date. As they operate mostly with local replicas of databases, this causes havoc for them as nothing gets replicated. I can have the users manually clear the replication history on each database, but it comes back eventually.

My question is: is there a way to clear the replication history for all of the databases at once and to keep that history from repopulating the bad date? If I could somehow do so for all of the clients at once, that would be great. Or, if someone has a better suggestion, I’d love to hear it.

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Subject: Clearing the replication history for all selected databases

This might be what you are looking for:

Peter Närlund, http://domainpatrol.wordpress.com

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Subject: ClearHistory method

is there a way to clear the replication history for all of the databases at once and to keep that history from repopulating the bad date?

At once, don’t know one. But you could parse all your dbs and then use the ClearHistory method

JYR

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Subject: Clear replication history

Domino delivers this right out of the box. Open your LN admin client en select the second tab ‘Files’. Select the user(s) you want to clear the replication history. Then select the ‘Tool’ button in your LN administration client in the ‘Files’ tab. Expand the tools menu and select ‘Replication’. In the following popup window you can clear the replication history. With this method you can select all the databases (ctrl+A) of your users or make a selection of your choice.