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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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Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) between Server 2008 & Server 2008 R2 over Gateway to Gateway VPN causing extreme network latency

The company I work for is in the process of setting up a branch office for one of our clients. We have 1.5 Mbps up/down T1s at each location, a Cisco RV042 router at each location hosting a Gateway to Gateway VPN tunnel between the two locations,…
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DFS-R - Set server as master

I would like to set up a 2 server DFS-R for web content. The website is a Learning Management System that holds a few TB of videos and documents. The front end of the website is a Windows Load Balance across several servers. I am looking for the…
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DFS "clobering" files

We have DFS setup using the DFS Management Administrator Tool. I turned on replication in the Distributed File System Administrator Tool as well and this morning we lost tons of files from that share. Please explain to me why this was wrong and if…
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DFSR - What happens when one server gets maxed out?

What happens when one server in a DFSR pool maxes out its disk space? I am at the very beginning of my research in DFS/R and this struck me. I plan on implementing this on one server with RAID1 (160GB) and on another server with a RAID5 (500GB).…
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Replicate the same source folder to multiple end points, with a different schedule for each end point

I'm trying to make a set of folders (about 8 gig) that get updated monthly to replicate out to nine branch locations. They are connected via VPN back to head office with 1.5Mbit aDSL links. I've got Win Server 2008r2 at all ends. I'd prefer to…
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Can not access DfsrPrivate

I've set up DFS-R between three servers, and so far, it is replicating everything as its supposed to. The problem is, I can not access the DfsrPrivate folder. Where is it located? So far I see the link/shortcut from within my replicated folder. But…
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DFS-R or WAFS for Syncing 1TB Files between remote sites

We have 1TB of files that we wish to keep in sync between three locations. This data consists of around 1.5 Million files which grows/changes at an average of 100MB/day. The first location is a Queensland office which has a dedicated ADSL2+ syncing…
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Is there a way to replicate a very large file shares in real-time?

I have an hourly cron job that copies about 40GB of data from a source folder into a new folder with the hour appended on the end. When it's done, the job prunes anything older than 24 hours. This data changes very often during work hours and is on…
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Can't resolve offline file conflicts

We use roaming profiles on our Server 2008 R2 domain, with folder redirection for 'desktop', 'my documents' and 'application data'. But as our network is split across two sites, we have one file server at each site, which are configured to use…
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Is it possible to extend the Active Directory schema in a Windows 2003 DC (NOT R2) to support DFSR?

We're in the process of installing a brand new Windows Server 2008 Web cluster and we would like to synchronize some files between the servers. The problem is that the DC in the domain is an old Windows Server 2003 Standard (NOT R2) which apparently…
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No logs for DFS Replication on Domain Controller

I was testing monitoring DFSR event logs on my DCs and figured there are no logs after event 1210 (The DFS Replication service successfully set up an RPC listener for incoming replication requests.) Unfortunately i cleared the log yesterday and…
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Workstations lose connection to network shares and need to be rebooted in order to reconnect to shared resources

I have a situation where workstations will lose the connection to network shares and printers during the night and have to be rebooted in order to reconnect, afterwards everything works correctly, this does not happen every night, and it does not…
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DFS Replication 25000 Event 4308 per minute

TL;DR in bold Hello, I have set up a new DFS Namespace and Replication for a software and user share from an older 2012R2 server to a newer 2019 server that we wish to migrate to. I've left the servers running for several days now but there does not…
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NTFS treating files as temporary without T attribute, and not replicating over DFS

I have found a folder of files that are failing to replicate between my DFS servers, and I can't find any documented reason why. Here are some examples: FileName Attributes package_2019-08-09-11-07.zip.filepart …
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Added DFSR to Domain controller, non domain admins can not create shares

My situation is I deployed a couple of domain controllers at some locations. My boss didn't want to spend money on servers, so I reused some servers we were not using. I installed them as domain controllers and added DFSR replication to them. …
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