Events - DFS

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Event IDs

4102

Replication has started on the listed share

4104

Replication has completed

4202

Above high water mark for the replication staging dir,

This is expected to occur many times in normal DFS usage.

4204

Below the watermark for the replication staging dir.

This appears after 4202 if no issues were encountered.

4206

Replication has hit an issue with the staging directory. I hit this issue several times, but letting it sit always resolved itself, even if overnight.

4208

Like 4202

4210

Like 4204

4412

A file conflict was found, and automatically resolved. It will list the file that was the issue.

Warning

These duplicates go somewhere, but I do not know where. It could pose an issue to your disk space should this occur on a large share.

5004

A replication partner has been found

5012

A replication partner failed to be found

Event 4206 - Dfsr failed to cleanup staging files

The DFS Replication service failed to clean up old staging files for the replicated folder at local path D:\Data\Shared. The service might fail to replicate some large files and the replicated folder might get out of sync. The service will automatically retry staging space cleanup in 30 minutes. The service may start cleanup earlier if it detects some staging files have been unlocked.

Additional Information:
Staging Folder: D:\Data\Shared\DfsrPrivate\Staging\ContentSet{E6F5FC43-0C10-4669-A550-75D961C6D7CB}-

Configured Size: 4096 MB
Space in Use: 50837 MB
High Watermark: 90%
Low Watermark: 60%
Replicated Folder Name: Shared1
Replicated Folder ID: E6F5FC43-0C10-4669-A550-75D961C6D7CB
Replication Group Name: domainname.local\data\shared1
Replication Group ID: 47ADFA93-6BF4-47A4-AFC4-89375890489B
Member ID: D1F1EC5E-50EE-41CF-A702-6901F7C11587

Notes

This occurred on a full replication and a pre-seeded one

Resolution

I hit this issue, but come the next morning the issue had resolved itself.

Possible alternative resolutions could include:

increasing staging size?
checking what has a lock on the issue files? MAYBEEEE its a user?

Event 4104

When replication is complete, you will see event 4104 in event viewer. It will contain the following text and explain the DsfrPrivate hidden system directory that was added.