Replication and distribution: Agents

Hi all replication experts...

I have created transactional replication on my servers (production server and backup server) and created pull subscription at the backup server. On my production server that also is a distributor and publisher there exist two agents, Snapshot agent and Log reader in the Publishers folder under replication Monitor.

There are also another agent with the backup server name and database name: BackServ:DBName having the type Pull and 'No replicated transactions are available' as Last Action. My question is: What is this? Must it be there?

Grateful for answers

Best,
/M

Its hard to say exactly what this is, but it appears to be your distribution agent. You appear to have a pull agent configured on your subscriber.

It is essential for your transactional replication topology. Do not remove it.

Hilary

|||OK, thanks :)