Question

Windows 2003 Server File Replication Service Issue

Asked by: KidsTrainingTeam

For last few days i am getting the following 3 error in my Windows 2003 server daily at same time and I don't know it seems that everything is working fine. I want to know resolve this issue and want to know how this happened. Can you help me?

ERROR 1
The File Replication Service is unable to add this computer to the following replica set:
    "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)"
 
This could be caused by a number of problems such as:
  --  an invalid root path,
  --  a missing directory,
  --  a missing disk volume,
  --  a file system on the volume that does not support NTFS 5.0
 
The information below may help to resolve the problem:
Computer DNS name is "CNTSERVER.cntserver.gw.wichita.edu"
Replica set member name is "CNTSERVER"
Replica set root path is "c:\windows\sysvol\domain"
Replica staging directory path is "c:\windows\sysvol\staging\domain"
Replica working directory path is "c:\windows\ntfrs\jet"
Windows error status code is  
FRS error status code is FrsErrorMismatchedJournalId

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ERROR 2

The File Replication Service is in an error state. Files will not replicate to or from one or all of the replica sets on this computer until the following recovery steps are performed:
 
 Recovery Steps:
 
 [1] The error state may clear itself if you stop and restart the FRS service. This can be done by performing the following in a command window:
 
    net stop ntfrs
    net start ntfrs
 
If this fails to clear up the problem then proceed as follows.
 
 [2] For Active Directory Domain Controllers that DO NOT host any DFS alternates or other replica sets with replication enabled:
 
If there is at least one other Domain Controller in this domain then restore the "system state" of this DC from backup (using ntbackup or other backup-restore utility) and make it non-authoritative.
 
If there are NO other Domain Controllers in this domain then restore the "system state" of this DC from backup (using ntbackup or other backup-restore utility) and choose the Advanced option which marks the sysvols as primary.
 
If there are other Domain Controllers in this domain but ALL of them have this event log message then restore one of them as primary (data files from primary will replicate everywhere) and the others as non-authoritative.
 
 
 [3] For Active Directory Domain Controllers that host DFS alternates or other replica sets with replication enabled:
 
 (3-a) If the Dfs alternates on this DC do not have any other replication partners then copy the data under that Dfs share to a safe location.
 (3-b) If this server is the only Active Directory Domain Controller for this domain then, before going to (3-c),  make sure this server does not have any inbound or outbound connections to other servers that were formerly Domain Controllers for this domain but are now off the net (and will never be coming back online) or have been fresh installed without being demoted. To delete connections use the Sites and Services snapin and look for
Sites->NAME_OF_SITE->Servers->NAME_OF_SERVER->NTDS Settings->CONNECTIONS.
 (3-c) Restore the "system state" of this DC from backup (using ntbackup or other backup-restore utility) and make it non-authoritative.
 (3-d) Copy the data from step (3-a) above to the original location after the sysvol share is published.
 
 
 [4] For other Windows servers:
 
 (4-a)  If any of the DFS alternates or other replica sets hosted by this server do not have any other replication partners then copy the data under its share or replica tree root to a safe location.
 (4-b)  net stop ntfrs
 (4-c)  rd /s /q  c:\windows\ntfrs\jet
 (4-d)  net start ntfrs
 (4-e)  Copy the data from step (4-a) above to the original location after the service has initialized (5 minutes is a safe waiting time).
 
Note: If this error message is in the eventlog of all the members of a particular replica set then perform steps (4-a) and (4-e) above on only one of the members.
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ERROR 3

The File Replication Service has detected that the replica set "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)" is in JRNL_WRAP_ERROR.
 
 Replica set name is    : "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)"
 Replica root path is   : "c:\windows\sysvol\domain"
 Replica root volume is : "\\.\C:"
 A Replica set hits JRNL_WRAP_ERROR when the record that it is trying to read from the NTFS USN journal is not found.  This can occur because of one of the following reasons.
 
 [1] Volume "\\.\C:" has been formatted.
 [2] The NTFS USN journal on volume "\\.\C:" has been deleted.
 [3] The NTFS USN journal on volume "\\.\C:" has been truncated. Chkdsk can truncate the journal if it finds corrupt entries at the end of the journal.
 [4] File Replication Service was not running on this computer for a long time.
 [5] File Replication Service could not keep up with the rate of Disk IO activity on "\\.\C:".
 Setting the "Enable Journal Wrap Automatic Restore" registry parameter to 1 will cause the following recovery steps to be taken to automatically recover from this error state.
 [1] At the first poll, which will occur in 5 minutes, this computer will be deleted from the replica set. If you do not want to wait 5 minutes, then run "net stop ntfrs" followed by "net start ntfrs" to restart the File Replication Service.
 [2] At the poll following the deletion this computer will be re-added to the replica set. The re-addition will trigger a full tree sync for the replica set.
 
WARNING: During the recovery process data in the replica tree may be unavailable. You should reset the registry parameter described above to 0 to prevent automatic recovery from making the data unexpectedly unavailable if this error condition occurs again.
 
To change this registry parameter, run regedit.
 
Click on Start, Run and type regedit.
 
Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Click down the key path:
   "System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters"
Double click on the value name
   "Enable Journal Wrap Automatic Restore"
and update the value.





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by: kpradPosted on 2006-11-17 at 11:38:33ID: 17967966

there might be several reasons why this could be happening.
FRS error status code is FrsErrorMismatchedJournalId
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925633

whenever any changes are made on a file its written to the USN journal and if the files are in sysvol then they are written into the inbound and outbound logs of the Frs on the DC, if there is not enough disk space on the drive or if FRS had been stopped for a long time then you would come across a jrnl wrap error.

how many dc's are there in the domain ?
are there any orphaned Dc's.
what about the service is it running on all the Dc's ?
are these errors reported on other DC's, are the CNAME records for all the DC's registered in DNS and whaether AD replication is working fine.

 

by: KidsTrainingTeamPosted on 2006-12-14 at 09:31:51ID: 18140397

Hey!

There is only one DC and the NTFRS service has never been stopped.

Thanks

 

by: kpradPosted on 2006-12-14 at 09:54:42ID: 18140566

ok and there is no problem with disk space either.
in that case you could backup your sysvol data (can also copy it onto a different place)
rename ntfrs.jdb after stopping the FRS and then start FRS again.. Now check for errors. the reason to back it up is just in case there are orphaned Dc's in the domain, trhings should not go wrong.

cheers.

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