Cant delete DFS Replication PreExisting folder: Access Denied? We have about 60GB in our “PreExisting” folder that have been sitting there for a few years, it seems, since our DFS Replication was changed The data is old and we want to delete it to reclaim space Trouble is, I can’t seem to delete any of the files or folders I’ve taken ownership as a Domain Admin, changed security permissions to Full Control, but in explorer, when I hit delete
DFS-R PreExisting Content - Windows - Spiceworks Community So I’m doing my DFS-R initial replication, ran a health report and got this warning: When I look in that folder, there are a few dozen files The warning says I should move the content back to the replicated folder I can manually move this data to wherever it should go, including putting it on the primary member However, all the files have been tagged with what looks like a hash tag or
DFSR - files missing, moved to PreExisting folder - Windows . . . I have two servers configured with DFSR to replicate several shares I patched both servers last night and today users complained about files missing or reverted to older versions I found one of the missing file names provided to me in the DfsrPrivate\\PreExiting folder How did my files end up here and what’s the best way of restoring the missing newer files?
DFSR Windows Server 2012 - Spiceworks Community The DfsrPrivate\Preexisting folder is a hidden system folder that is located under the local path of the replicated folder Content in the DfsrPrivate\PreExisting folder will not be replicated to other members of the replication group, nor will the content be deleted by the DFS Replication service during any automatic clean-up
rebuilding sysvol tree - Windows - Spiceworks Community What should I do to recreate the “NtFrs_PreExisting___See_EventLog” folder in the sysvol folder of the domain controller ADC Another question I want to make sure that my choice for making the primary domain controller that has the FSMO roles that is called “DC“to be the authoritative for the sysvol replica set
Cleaning up DFSR Folder - Windows - Spiceworks Community Hi All Am running out of space on the file server and have found a DFSR folder sitting at 100GB in the system volume information hidden folder The folder has not been touched since June 2013 when DFS was stopped Does anyone know the best way to clean up reclaim this space? Cheers James
FRS replication problem - unable to delete NtFrs_PreExisting___See . . . The “NtFrs_PreExisting___See_EventLog” folder indicates a problem with NTFRS replication The folder and files should not be deleted until you understand why they are there Your first port of call should be the FRSDiag utility which will diagnose any issues you are facing
Help! Cant restore DFS-R files from preexisting It’s been awhile since I have restored dfs files and when I did it I had to use a out of band tool from a Microsoft Blog to restore it and it keep the files in preexisting folder Not sure about the new stuff in 2012
DFS Pre Existing Content - Windows - Spiceworks Community Hello all, I’m slowly learning about DFS as we are implementing it at work I have 3 servers, DC1, DC2 and DC3 DC1 was the main file server and DC2 3 have recently been added and will be going to their new offices shortly I have copied the data folders using Robocopy and eveything is in place now and replication has been running for a while In the Heath Report it says: DFS Replication
Recreate Default Domain Policy file - Spiceworks Community The DfsrPrivate\Preexisting folder is a hidden system folder that is located under the local path of the replicated folder Content in the DfsrPrivate\PreExisting folder will not be replicated to other members of the replication group, nor will the content be deleted by the DFS Replication service during any automatic clean-up