My DFSR appears to disable itself daily at various times for at least an hour or two. I have two Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 running and on the “main” server I see the following informational message in the Event Viewer under application:
7/27/2012 7:01:28 AM - DFSRs (864) \\.\E:\System Volume Information\DFSR\database_B8A2_1DE8_A21D_AC3E\dfsr.db: The database engine stopped the instance (0).
7/27/2012 7:01:28 AM - DFSRs (864) \\.\E:\System Volume Information\DFSR\database_B8A2_1DE8_A21D_AC3E\dfsr.db: The database engine (6.01.7601.0000) started a new instance (0).
7/27/2012 7:01:29 AM - DFSRs (864) \\.\E:\System Volume Information\DFSR\database_B8A2_1DE8_A21D_AC3E\dfsr.db: The database engine stopped the instance (0).
When that occurs, (sometimes) under the DFS Replication I see these messages:
7/27/2012 7:01:26 AM - The DFS Replication service detected that the replicated folder at local path E:\accounting has been removed from configuration.
7/27/2012 7:01:28 AM - The DFS Replication service has detected that all replicated folders on volume E: have been disabled or deleted.
Once this occurs, DFS replication doesn’t occur on the server and I see these messages when I try to check the backlog.
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[ERROR] Failed to execute GetOutboundBacklogFileCount method. Err: -2147217406 (0x80041002)
Operation Failed
[ERROR] Cannot find DfsrReplicatedFolderConfig object. Possible reasons:
+ The replicated folder is not configured on the member
+ Access is denied to its configuration information
[ERROR] Replicated folder not found. Err: -2147217406 (0x80041002)
Operation Failed
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This only occurs on one drive (E). I have a drive F that works fine (it is never been removed from replication).
You noticed above I said sometimes the folder is removed configuration, that’s always not the case.
Sometimes I get the message about The database engine stopped the instance (1) and in the DFS Replication Event Viewer I see DFS stopped, but it doesn’t mention anything about folders on E and when it starts back up, it’s only replicating folders on
F.
Starting/Stopping DFS, polling AD, etc doesn’t seem to help
At 12:56 PM, nearly 6 hours later it just started working again and this message was logged:
7/27/2012 12:56:38 PM - DFSRs (4988) \\.\E:\System Volume Information\DFSR\database_B8A2_1DE8_A21D_AC3E\dfsr.db: The database engine (6.01.7601.0000) started a new instance (1).
These are fairly new instance of DFS as we retired our 2003 servers and installed the 2008 version. Not sure if this is the new behavior in 2008 but it is affecting business. I have updated both servers to the latest version according to this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968429
This appears to happen on both servers but at different random times, usually at night for the second server but during production hours for the first server.
Server 1:
7/27/2012 7:01:28 AM
7/26/2010 10:11:16 AM
7/25/2012 6:31:12 AM
7/24/2012 6:11:04 AM
7/23/2012 8:31:23 AM
Server 2:
7/27/2012 2:55:45 AM
7/26/2012 1:50:44 AM
7/25/2012 3:00:14 AM
7/24/2012 1:50:22 AM
7/23/2012 4:01:34 AM
I cannot have my replication down for 5 hours during production hours. Any suggestions?