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DFS (Distributed File System) Replication is a file replication technology originally shipped with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system.

DFS (Distributed File System) Replication is a file replication technology originally shipped with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system.

DFSR allows creating multiple replicas of the content which thereby allow a level of resiliency. In the older versions of DFS (first introduced in Windows 2000 Server), the replication was handled by FRS (File Replication Service).

See the DFS tag for more info on DFS and DFSN (namespaces).

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GLUSTERFS or DFSR

Been reading (here) and other about GLUSTERFS. Anyone have first hand experience going with DFSR vs. GLUSTERFS or switching between the two? DFSR = Microsoft's Distrubted File System Replication or DFS on top of their file system replication…
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DFS-R Event ID 4412 The DFS Replication service detected that a file was changed on multiple servers

To prepare DFS replication, we used robocopy /DATSOU... to copy the contents of a shared folder (~170G) to another server. After that, a DFS replication group was configured with the two folders. Now after some hour we get tons of 4412 errors…
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SYSVOL replication over DFS-R

When we migrate our production DCs to Server 2008 I would also like to move away from FSR to DFS-R for SYSVOL replication. My problem is that I setup a quick lab to test it out but it's not going as planned. I'm sure I'm just overlooking something…
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Best practice on deploying MSIs via group policies: from dedicated share or from the AD itself?

For years I have been using GPOs to install MSIs to our Windows clients. All MSIs resided under a single \\fileserver\share, with a GPO assigned to each MSI for installation. Currently, out AD servers are Windows Server 2019 systems (DFS-R for…
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DFS Replication Error 9098 (tombstoned content)

3 servers, DFS replication was working for 2 years. Recently 1 of the member servers started reporting this: The DFS Replication service stopped replication on replicated folder projects at local path Z:\projects due to Error ID: 9098 (A tombstoned…
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DFSR and site link

From my understanding, DSF uses the site/link information created in Active Directory Site and Services to redirect users to the nearest fileserver (when, of course, users access the share via the DFS namespace). What about DFSR? Lets pretend that I…
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Investigating Sysvol replication issues when promoting domain controllers with DSC in Azure

We're using PowerShell DSC to automate the deployment of a number of small self contained environments, in these environments we are deploying 2 domain controllers and use DSC to setup the domain etc. This is all working fine except for the fact…
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Why is this DFS replicated folder status "uninitialized" and how do I resolve it?

We have a DFS infrastructure with 3 servers and 93 replicated folders. When I run a health report from the DFS Management console, the status of one of these folders is listed as "uninitialized". This folder has previously replicated…
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Is it possible to specify alternate path for storing "Conflict and Deleted" files in DFSR?

I have recently setup DFS replication between two folders and their subfolders on two 2012R2 servers. This folder is a "custom" folder used by our .NET web application that contains settings and data for our website. Content is not very relevant. I…
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DFS-R replication: NTFS permissions don't work on some subfolders on members

I've setup DFS-R (Hub and spoke) for a share between 6 Windows 2012 R2 servers. The share on all servers is called "Websites$" with "full access" permission for everyone. All servers have high performance 4 Xeon-Cores, 32 GB RAM, 8 GB RAM are free…
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One DFS Replication Group per Namespace

I'm in the process of implementing a single DFS namespace which will be holding approximately 20 or so Folder Targets. These folders are also going to be replicated to the other servers using DFS-R. I'm wondering whether I should set up a single…
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DFS linking to a target folder within another target folder

Windows Server 2012 - Attempting to setup a file server using DFS I have the following scenario: Namespace: \\domain\resources Folder without targets: Files > \\domain\resources\files Folders with targets: Clients >…
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DFS-R NTFS Permissions Not Working?

I have two Windows 2008 Standard servers running DFSR okay. I can create a file on one server and it is replicated to the other okay, etc. I have the namespace shared folder on each server shared with Full Control for Administrators and Modify…
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How to enable DFSR between Windows Server 2008 servers that aren't part of a domain?

I'm configuring two server as IIS web servers on Windows Server 2008 in load balancing mode. I want to enable DFS replication for synchronizing web content files and IIS configuration data (via IIS 7 shared configuration.) The servers are not in a…
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Linux and Window DFS shares - restoring previous versions of files/folders

I know I can mount DFS shares on my Linux boxes with no issues, but is there a method by which I can access/restore previous versions of folders/files from these DFS shares? Thanks
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