I have been running snapshot replication for around 2 months succesfully without any error. Publisher & Subscriber are SQL server 2008. Now i am getting the following message from the sql agentjob history. Looked up in the forum & search did not yield any match. please help resolve this ?
Message
2010-12-31 01:52:09.24 Microsoft (R) SQL Server Snapshot Agent
2010-12-31 01:52:09.24 [Assembly Version = 10.0.0.0, File Version = 10.0.1600.22 ((SQL_PreRelease).080709-1414 )]
2010-12-31 01:52:09.24 Copyright (c) 2008 Microsoft Corporation.
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 The timestamps prepended to the output lines are expressed in terms of UTC time.
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 User-specified agent parameter values:
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 --------------------------------------
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 -Publisher XYZ
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 -PublisherDB abc
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 -Publication abc_SnapPub031110
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 -Distributor XYZ
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 -DistributorSecurityMode 1
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 -XJOBID 0x9B8B5D4AB8BC8249AB262B59DCD242FD
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 --------------------------------------
2010-12-31 01:52:09.29 Connecting to Distributor 'XYZ'
2010-12-31 01:52:10.38 Parameter values obtained from agent profile:
2010-12-31 01:52:10.38 ---------------------------------------------
2010-12-31 01:52:10.38 -BcpBatchSize 100000
2010-12-31 01:52:10.38 -HistoryVerboseLevel 2
2010-12-31 01:52:10.38 -LoginTimeout 15
2010-12-31 01:52:10.38 -QueryTimeout 1800
2010-12-31 01:52:10.38 ---------------------------------------------
2010-12-31 01:52:10.49 Connecting to Publisher 'XYZ'
2010-12-31 01:52:10.62 Publisher database compatibility level is set to 100.
2010-12-31 01:52:10.63 Retrieving publication and article information from the publisher database 'XYZ.abc'
2010-12-31 01:52:10.99 The replication agent had encountered an exception.
2010-12-31 01:52:10.99 Source: Replication
2010-12-31 01:52:10.99 Exception Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.ReplicationAgentSqlException
2010-12-31 01:52:10.99 Exception Message: Specified cast is not valid.
2010-12-31 01:52:10.99 Message Code: 52006
2010-12-31 01:52:10.99
Version string portion was too short or too long.