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SBS 2003 in journal wrap

Dear Experts,

I have inherited an SBS 2003 domain with a few issues.  I am about to install a new SBS 2011 server in migration mode but need to resolve a few issues first.

The SBS is reporting that it is in journal wrap mode: Event ID 13568

There was once a "backup server" that they used but it failed, leaving the system in a state where NTFRS could no longer replicate. Apparently this happened around 5 years ago.

I've seen this situation before and successfully recovered from it, but I expected to also see the tombstone event in the logs.

So I'm approaching this with caution.

What's the best way to recover from this?

Thanks
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The D4 option is the last resort option. It rebuilds AD from scratch. Surely this would destroy the active directory and all objects would be lost.
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Would it not be safer to clean the metadata first?
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and then do a D2?
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Setting the registry value as described worked perfectly.

Many thanks for your help on this.