Questions tagged [dfs-r]
DFS (Distributed File System) Replication is a file replication technology originally shipped with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system.
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Migrate a DFSR Server to a new one. Currently in a Hub-Spoke Configuration
Is there an easy way to migrate the Hub to a new server. My current one is running out of space. Do I need to redesign the configuration or can I do a migration to the new server.
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Strange path in sysvol replication
On our 2008 R2 domain, I have a strange entry in the list of folder replica.
\\?\C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain dc1 Enabled SYSVOL Share
C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain dc2 Enabled ...
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Is Branch Cache worth considering as a replacement for DFS-R
We have a small stub office that currently has a single server 2003 domain controller, and a DFS-R copy of the file store held at our main office. We probably replicate about 100Gb of data, I would ...
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DFS-R NTFS Permissions Not Working?
I have two Windows 2008 Standard servers running DFSR okay. I can create a file on one server and it is replicated to the other okay, etc. I have the namespace shared folder on each server shared ...
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File Replication to Branch Offices
We're currently using DFSR in Server 2008 to replicate from our head office to 3 branch offices across VPN links.
This way we have a local copy of all the companies files in each site, for quick ...
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How to enable DFSR between Windows Server 2008 servers that aren't part of a domain?
I'm configuring two server as IIS web servers on Windows Server 2008 in load balancing mode. I want to enable DFS replication for synchronizing web content files and IIS configuration data (via IIS 7 ...
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How to avoid DFS conflict problems on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2?
I maintain two Win 2003 servers connected via a VPN with data duplicated via DFS. As it stands the customer is complaining of losing data - normally because one person in each office saves a version ...
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Rsync or DFS-R for remote backup over slow links of Windows 2003 R2 SP2?
I need to backup many sites over slow, high latency satellite links. We are talking pings of 650ms to each site. I can get a dump of the initial data by sending out USB disk to site and restoring it ...
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SYSVOL replication over DFS-R
When we migrate our production DCs to Server 2008 I would also like to move away from FSR to DFS-R for SYSVOL replication. My problem is that I setup a quick lab to test it out but it's not going as ...