Replication issue

  • 20-July-2013

    Taken out replication overnight, disabled qreader job on distributer.

    Recreated all four publications - no problems all snapshots created.

    Three subscriptions work fine.

    The last one again fails because of the following error:

    The distribution agent failed to create temporary files in 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\COM' directory. System returned errorcode 5. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL21100)

    This is not an updateable subscription, the snapshot is over 35GB which shouldn't be an issue. I believe that the c: drive referred to is that on the subscriber - which the distribution agent has full access to.

    Any ideas?

  • Now resolved. The drive replication required access to was on the C: drive of the distributor.

    I can't see why it would need it for this specific publication/subscription and not for the other 4 transactional and 4 snapshot publications using this distributor, unless it was down to size as the snapshot for this one was over 35GB.

    This does add an extra problem as this is a virtual instance on a cluster so I now have to give the account access to the directory on the C: on all 4 cluster nodes.

    any suggestions anyone?

    Thanks

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