Currently our laptop clients have 2 locations - Mobile and Office (Network). The Office location has no replication schedule, but for the Mobile location, we set a replication schedule of 2 minutes for the user’s mailfile. This works well for users who have ADSL access remotely as they don’t need to constantly manually replicate, and it hasn’t caused any known errors in the few years we’ve been doing this.
Recently I’ve been asked to stop doing this by a fellow administrator responsible for a number of domains including mine. Their argument is that when the client is offline, the repeated attempts to replicate will cause the laptop to slow down and maybe even Notes to crash. Their recommendation was that we set the Office location to replicate every 15 minutes and to disable replication on the Mobile location.
As I said, we have never experienced any issues with this setup, and because users are only allowed their mailfiles offline, there is no issue of repeatedly attempting to replicate other, potentially large databases frequently. I’m therefore interested to know if there is either an IBM-recommended replication schedule for offline mailfiles and/or if there is a general consensus of opinion on the best way to administer automatic replication of mailfiles, both online and offline. Thanks in advance.