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Author  Topic  vorai Starting Member 1 Post Posted - 2013-02-28 : 11:21:20 Hello, I have the following: SITE A Server_A_Old (2005) Server_A_New (2008) SITE B1 Server_B1 (2005) SITE B2 Server_B2 (2005) Right now, only Old_Server_A is active, contains a production DB of ~ 70 GB and serves the users on all three sites. We want to re-establish the merge replication (data is generated on all three sites). There is decent network connection between A and B1, and between B1 and B2, but pretty poor one between A and B2. What is the simplest way to create a replication where B1 is the publisher for both B2 and A_new? Backup/restore or detach/attach of A_old to B1 might be critical, because of downtime window needed to transfer 70 GB. Thanks for any ideas!