Well I've reached the end of my rope with this one. Our replication server worked fine for months with no issues. All of a sudden it stopped working. We tried everything we could think of, disabling/enabling the replication server, deleting/readding the replication group, making sure one was set to primary, reinstalling DFS, deleting the System Volume Information\DFSR folder ect. Nothing is working.
What is really wierd is that it only fails on our D: drive, meaning that if we setup replication on a folder within the C: drive, it works perfect! If we setup the replication folder on our D: drive, it does not work. The problem only affects 1 of our servers. Replication works perfectly on all other servers, and on the affected server if the replication folder is setup on another drive. On the affected server, the debug log shows the error:
20121210 15:21:05.293 1940 SRTR 957 [WARN] SERVER_EstablishSession Failed to establish a replicated folder session. connId:{CC5E21CC-29A0-410E-8108-B98936753A7A} csId:{7D55E528-165E-4EA8-A009-F907BF9E1838} Error:
+ [Error:9028(0x2344) UpstreamTransport::EstablishSession upstreamtransport.cpp:808 1940 C The content set was not found]
+ [Error:9028(0x2344) OutConnection::EstablishSession outconnection.cpp:532 1940 C The content set was not found]
+ [Error:9028(0x2344) OutConnection::EstablishSession outconnection.cpp:476 1940 C The content set was not found]
Other servers report:
+ [Error:9027(0x2343) DownstreamTransport::EstablishSession downstreamtransport.cpp:4179 7628 C A failure was reported by the remote partner]
+ [Error:9028(0x2344) DownstreamTransport::EstablishSession downstreamtransport.cpp:4179 7628 C The content set was not found]
We also noticed that the System Volume Information\DFSR folder does not get recreated for the D: drive, but does get recreated on the C: drive on the same server. We've troubleshooted as far as we can and are stuck. The problem seems to only occur with a replicated folder on the D: drive. I saw a KB that looked similar, but it seemed to HyperV/snapshot related.
I will say that I think this started after we did a clean install of Server 2008 R2 several months ago, but used the same data (D:) drive but we can't be sure becuase we didn't notice it until now becuase this server was replicating only for backup purposes.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!