Hi,
I have two Windows 2012R2 fileservers, one in each site (LIVE and DR). The LIVE site uses DFSR to replicate various shared folders to the DR site. Site to site link is 500Mb
Specifically there are 10 shared folders (10TB total size) where DFSR eventually seemed to give up on replicating them. In fact it seems to have moved a lot of files into the Preexisting folder on the DR server and if you look at the shares on the DR server there's almost no data in them. Data on the LIVE server is fine.
Effectively I want to re-sync these 10 folders to the DR site. I was thinking that perhaps doing all 10 at the same time was asking too much, so I'm happy to do the first folder, and then add the second etc. until all are back in sync.
I have removed the 10 folders from the DFSR replication group.
The disk drive that holds these 10 folders on the DR server still has 10TB of space used up by the DFSR Preexisting folders, even though (1) I can see the new DFSR config has successfully replicated to the DR site and (2) I've left the server overnight to see if it would clean itself up.
So ideally I want to clear down this disk drive to make space for me to perform the re-replication of the first shared folder.
From what I've read I thought I might have to call the CleanUpConflictDirectory method
But I fall at the first hurdle:
WMIC.EXE /namespace:\\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderconfig get replicatedfolderguid,replicatedfoldername
Because the replicated folder no longer exists in the DFSR config.
I think I want to delete the shared folders, delete the DFSR content and that will leave me with 10TB of free space. Then re-create the shared folders and re-enable replication (one folder at a time)
I know I can delete the shared folders, but how do I best go about clearing down the DFSR Preexisting folders?
Thanks,
Rob.