Replication of database to another server clears first (original) database

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Hi,

Our company uses 3 Domino servers. ServerA is our main server, ServerB is identical to A, databases from ServerA are transfered to ServerB using Replication > ServerB.

Applications we made/we use are on ServerA, some of those use template design, others don’t. Until today, everything worked as expected (replicas). Even now all, EXCEPT ONE application work. Application1 however has problems with replica. When the server started the command for replication this night, the process copied all documents from original app to ServerB.replicatedApplication1. There, all documents are visible. What bothers us is the last step of replica. What it did is, it deleted all documents from ServerA.originalApplication1 database.

There are no signs of problems in domino.log and we have no idea why did the replication did that???

Can anyone please give us an advice, why does replica delete documents from original app/database when its done? Documents are okay, replica, if created for the first time (manual, new replica > picking serverB) works and doesn’t delete original. Only later, when server runs replica, it deletes them.

All servers are 8.5.3 running on the same Linux distribution.

Please help us out. If you have any other questions, please, don’t hesitate to ask, I will reply to them ASAP.

Best regards,

Gregor

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Subject:
Check Replication Options

On Server A replica under Space Savers Tab does it happen to have Remove Documents not modified in the last (days) checked? jpaganet@us.ibm.com

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Subject: The option is unchecked

Hi mr. Paganetti and thank you for replying.

the option you’ve asked about is disabled. It has to do something with documents however, since, if we create new document before replicating OR edit old one, replica doesn’t delete it.

We’ve never heard of anything like it before…

We’ve tried also to create new database and COPY/PASTE all documents in it. This was even more interesting: Not all documents were copied. (Selected ~2500, copied ~900). No errors here whatsoever.

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Subject: Reader fields?

Does your application use Reader fields that restricts the target server from reading (so replicating) these documents?

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Subject: yes, app uses READERS and AUTHOR

Hi Marcel and thank you for replying,

our app uses READERS and AUTHOR fields as we need to restrict to which users can access which documents. However, ACL has serverA and serverB included as Server/Manager with proper role (Admin) set, where Admin is written everywhere in READERS.