Cleaning log and replication

[Leonos]

I have a merge replication setup, but my log-files are still growing.
Now I have read about the query BACKUP LOG [db] WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY (followed by shrink) that will clean these logs.

But...is the replication affected by this cleanup. With other words, does the replication-logreader use these logfiles ?

Leon

 

[Leonos]

I have done some testing with this case and it seems that it doesn't matter.

I stopped the logreader for an hour, then lots of data was added to the publishers database.
The I flushed the log with the command above.

Then I started the logreader and it did read the correct amount of commands and transactions.

After synch the subscribers database was equal to the publishers database.