DFS - Large file has frozen replication
Mike Degrow
We have a site to site VPN connection that allows our two Windows
Server 2008 file servers to replicate with each other. Recently we put
a rather large (19 Gig) image from of a hard drive in the file share
folder and have been experiencing issues with the replication ever
since. The large file doesnt seem to have been replicated over to the
other server and to the best of our knowledge the replication process
has been halted. Here is the error in the logs:
"The DFS Replication service failed to clean up old staging files for
the replicated folder at local path d:\files\Development. 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:\files\Development\DfsrPrivate\Staging
\ContentSet{7308DF43-DD49-4361-934D-86CF949F4C97}-{4DE7DEC0-
D875-477C-898D-C356E164B698}
Configured Size: 4096 MB
Space in Use: 18826 MB
High Watermark: 90%
Low Watermark: 60%
Replicated Folder Name: Development"
From the error above the problem seems pretty clear. These gave me
good information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754229.aspx
It looks like we have to increase our staging quota size, BUT, we're
worried that it might mess up DFS and we don't know if it will
actually solve the problem at this point. Has anyone done this or
knows the affects? Any information would be very appreciated! Thanks -
Mike