To avoid replication across satellite links, is there a correct procedure/best practice for introducing a large file or files (~6GB) at each partner server simultaneously from USB drive into replicated folders on an EXISTING active/production DFS servers with Replication enabled?  These are not new members/replication partners.

My initial thoughts are to disable replication for that folder on the partners, organise the copying of the files at each location, and when complete enable the replication again. Will this just result in CPU load and not content transfer?

Is there a better way of doing

Hi,

Generally we still recommend to let DFSR to do the replication though the file is large.

Disable DFSR - manually copy - re-enable DFSR will also work. But it is better to let DFSR to run during the manually copy. The server which get the file first will start staging the file. If following copies are finished before staging was sent, the replication will be stopped as "newer file exists". The last server which get the file copied will start another replicate for syncing the status among all targets.