Scheduled replication

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We have some problems with scheduled replication. The replication is simply stops being scheduled, but a manual replication works just fine.

The replication is initiated from a remote server Mail1-MY/Domino (located in Malaysia) towards our mail server in Denmark Mail1-DK/Domino. The replication interval is set to 5 minutes as can be seen below.

Here’s an example showing what happens when the replication stops being scheduled.

--------------- snip from Mail1-MY/Domion log ---------------------------

2005/12/29 08:09:28 AM Starting replication with server Mail1-DK/Domino

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. Succesful replication events

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2005/12/29 08:19:30 AM Finished replication with server Mail1-DK/Domino

2005/12/29 08:24:42 AM Starting replication with server Mail1-DK/Domino

2005/12/29 08:24:42 AM Unable to replicate schema.nsf: File does not exist

2005/12/29 08:24:42 AM Unable to replicate with server Mail1-DK/Domino: No databases to replicate on that server

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--------------- snip from log ----------------------------

I never see a Finished replication with server Mail1-DK/Domino for the second replication, but the replicator is idle and if I run

a “show sched -replication” I get.

show sched -replication

Scheduled Type Next schedule

CN=Mail1-DK/O=Domino Replication

We experience this problem two or three times a day and right now we have to restart the server to reestablish scheduled replication. Our link between Malaysia and Denmark

is pretty bad and its often down for a few minutes. But the servers should be able to cope with that kind of problems right???

Server information:

Mail1-DK/Domino - Domino 6.5.4 on AIX 5.2

Mail1-MY/Domino - Domino 7 on Linux kernel 2.6 (SLES 9 with SP2)

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Mikael Andersen

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Subject: RE: Scheduled replication

Mikael, You should contact Lotus Support about this issue. It appears that in your log, Replication eventually fails because it is trying to replicate with MAIL1/Domino instead of MAIL1-DK/Domino. For some reason it is dropping the -DK from the server name. I remember that I always tried to avoid spaces in Orgs and server names because of problems with entering Domino Server Console commands but I wasn’t aware of the Replica task having any problems like this. You should contact IBM Support becuase it appears that you have a lot of supporting log information about this issue.

Make sure you post the resolution in this forum so we can all learn from your experience.

Kevin

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Subject: RE: Scheduled replication

Hi Kevin

Thanks for your reply.

I renamed the server names to hide our company name and forgot the -DK. Sorry about that. I’ve corrected the initial post.

Still this might be a case for the Lotus support team. If they find a solution I’ll post it.