Promotion for maintenance fails: Unable to apply the data updates from the primary instance
Article Number
Applies To
RSA Product/Service Type: RSA Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 8.x
Issue
In the advanced status view you will see: "Failed to empty sweep files cleanup staging area"
Cause
Resolution
2. Navigate to p2r_sweeps_to_apply progress directory:
cd /opt/rsa/am/replication/p2r_sweeps_to_apply
3. Remove the sweep files in that directory.
4. Try the promotion again
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