I have 3 x 2008R2 servers running WSUS 3.2.7600.251
I have 2 downstream replica servers at different sites and all 3 servers have recently been migrated from 2008 x86 to R2. All 3 servers were cleanly rebuilt. DB's were backed up and restored along with content files and it all went very smoothly.
On the upstream server however I now have a situation where I have 44GB of content comprising 13,781 files but only 30GB and 4,500 files on the replica servers which is where I think it should be.
I followed the very helpful step I read on a thread in this forum of declining all the superceded updates and then running the server cleanup wizard and this dramatically reduced the sync'ing overhead and timeout issues i'd been experiencing recently. It also had the effect of reducing updates down to Approved 2387 and Declined 738. This was previously over 8000 in total.
All in all the system is in good shape although I think I have some 15GB of orphaned update files on the upstream server and I can't seem to find a method to clean them out. I'd like to reclaim the 15GB of disk space but I really don't want to delete all content and re-download. If there is no way to do this I'll live with it, it's a vm and I'll give it more disk. I did however think there must be a way...
