My data is being copied to the server, even though I have a registered database (from ArcGIS Desktop to ArcGIS Portal/Enterprise)

Question

Hi,

I have a registered sde-database in my ArcGIS Enterprise (10.6.1) and want to publish data from there to my Portal. In ArcGIS Desktop (also 10.6.1), when using the option share as service and choosing My Hosted Services, the analysis still says that the data is being copied to the server.

Weird enough, if I want to publish directly to my server instead of my Portal via My Hosted Services (so via gisserver.domain.com:6443/arcgis), then the analysis doesn't give me this warning. I published via both ways to my portal and it turns out that indeed the data is referenced when I directly publish to my server and is being copied to the server if I publish via My Hosted Services.

I want to be sure the data is not being copied to the server and kept in the database. I would like to publish through portal, but apparently this copies the data to ArcGIS Server. How can I overcome this issue?

HDCAdmin · Answer

Hi,

I am having the same issue. can you please tell me how you did this. fixed the connection problem and changed the validation parameter?

thanks in advance

PaulBrandt · Answer

I figured out what my problem was. I had used the python window to update the SDE connection properties in my map, but I didn't set the validation parameter to True, so it appeared to be updated in most places, but the one place that counted for this particular layer didn't, so it was copying the data up because even though the Analyze tool to prepare the service thought it was right, it didn't really have the connection registered on the server. Once I fixed the connection problem, the service created fine.

PaulBrandt · Answer

I am having a similar problem when publishing from Pro 2.4 to ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.1 (Portal or a standalone ArcServer). I have the Data option set to Reference registered data, I have the SDE connections registered with ArcServer and I don't get any messages during the analyze step. However, the publication process is still copying one dataset to a FileGeodatabase on the ArcServer. Any ideas as to why this would be occurring?

All the other datasets show up on the Referenced tab as I would expect, which ironically appears to include the sde data that was copied, though that feature class is referenced in the map several times. Sorry I had to black out all of the names.

I opened this GDB in Pro, and it does contain data that was copied to the server. I'm sure it is something I'm missing. Has anyone seen similar behavior or found the source of a problem like this?