I have two servers that were using DFSR replication to sync 160 GB of data over a slow VPN connection. The VPN was down for several months because of ISP issues and is now up. I made the error when attempting to update the files manually between the sites using xcopy of overwriting the DFSRPrivateFolders. When that happened I researched the issue and thought that deleting the existing DFSRPrivate Folders and restarting the service would fix the issue. I'm now getting the following error in the DFS Event Log and replication is not working.
Event ID: 4004
The DFS Replication service stopped replication on the replicated folder at local path D:\Common\Document.Additional Information:
Error: 145 (The directory is not empty.)
Additional context of the error:
Replicated Folder Name: Document
Replicated Folder ID: FE7983D1-B3BB-4A90-B9ED-F6F9EFD1AAB7
Replication Group Name: REEF
Replication Group ID: 52D7244C-B495-4928-9761-4B4B01BEE151
Member ID: 6AC30C0F-C5AA-4490-A34C-14B47627B6D3
Is there a way to repair the damage or reset the DFS Folders without having to replicate 160 GB of data again over a slow connection. I also want to make sure I don't overwrite newer files on either server with older files in error. There is not enough free space on servers to make duplicate copies of all the data if I have to start from scratch.
Thank you,
Robert Silberman