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DFSR Preexisting / Odd issue question
Hi there! I am in the process of decommissioning a Windows 2008 R2 DFSR member server, I have the last lot of files and folders to move to our new 2016 DFSR member. Robocopying folders/files and...
During initial sync or cloning, files with the same name and path that exist only on the downstream server move to: <rf> \Dfsrprivate\PreExisting. We don't want a special copy of this directory using robocopy. copying the root directory where end-user data reside to the target server is enough and enables the replication between servers. Note: I would recommend using one-way replication with Make read-only from the target server to the source to avoid any duplicate file conflict algorithm
Thanks Seshadrr, when I did the original robocopy I excluded the DFSRPrivate folder, so just had the end user data copied over. It was when I set up the replication group and it performed the "intial sync" that all but a third of the folders and files were moved to preexisting. I will give the read only replication a go on the target server, i need to do another re copy now as the data is out of date. I will let you know how this goes.
- When you are using the second set of copies, i mean its delta set from the source to destination. To avoid duplicate folder to be created on target server, better to use MIR switch which will have identical files/folders set on the source -> target server
