Replication Backlog

[DaveMills]

How do I know if a replication group has no backlog. When I rund the diag report
from the MMC is does now say "there is no backlog" or "zero files in backlog"
etc. It just does not report anything about a backlog. How do I know that this
means there are no backlogged files?

[Danny Sanders]

There is a section called backlogged sending transactions and a section
called backlogged receiving transactions.

Look at the entries for those sections.

hth
DDS

Post by DaveMills
How do I know if a replication group has no backlog. When I rund the diag report
from the MMC is does now say "there is no backlog" or "zero files in backlog"
etc. It just does not report anything about a backlog. How do I know that this
means there are no backlogged files?
--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.

[DaveMills]

Post by Danny Sanders
There is a section called backlogged sending transactions and a section
called backlogged receiving transactions.
Look at the entries for those sections.

Thanks, I must have had my eyes closed to have missed that.

Post by Danny Sanders
hth
DDS

Post by DaveMills
How do I know if a replication group has no backlog. When I rund the diag report
from the MMC is does now say "there is no backlog" or "zero files in backlog"
etc. It just does not report anything about a backlog. How do I know that this
means there are no backlogged files?
--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.

[Jadus01]

You can use dfsrdiag to check the backlog of receiving partners. I use the
following in a batch file:

dfsrdiag backlog /rgname:"domain\groupname" /rfname:"replicatedfoldername"
/sendingmember:"servername /receivingmember:"servername"
timeout 150

Without quotes, replace the relevant information. The timeout is so that you
can read the information before the batch file ends.

Post by DaveMills
How do I know if a replication group has no backlog. When I rund the diag report
from the MMC is does now say "there is no backlog" or "zero files in backlog"
etc. It just does not report anything about a backlog. How do I know that this
means there are no backlogged files?
--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.

[DaveMills]

Post by Jadus01
You can use dfsrdiag to check the backlog of receiving partners. I use the
dfsrdiag backlog /rgname:"domain\groupname" /rfname:"replicatedfoldername"
/sendingmember:"servername /receivingmember:"servername"
timeout 150

Thanks, this could be useful when I am past the testing phase and have a numbers
of replication groups..

Post by Jadus01
Without quotes, replace the relevant information. The timeout is so that you
can read the information before the batch file ends.

Post by DaveMills
How do I know if a replication group has no backlog. When I rund the diag report
from the MMC is does now say "there is no backlog" or "zero files in backlog"
etc. It just does not report anything about a backlog. How do I know that this
means there are no backlogged files?
--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.

[Mark A. Weaver]

I have written a little powershell script to help with this task.
Basically it will enumerate all Replication Groups on the "local" server
through WMI.
It will then walk through those connections/replicaton groups/folders and
determine the backlog files on each of the connections and replication
directions.
It will write events to the eventlog and then can be picked up witih SCOM or
other tool.
Hope you can use this once you move beyond testing. We use it to regularly
monitor the state of replication.

My blog entry can be found here:
http://vmweaver.com/index.php/2009/04/powershell-and-dfsr/

Good luck!
-- Mark

Post by DaveMills
How do I know if a replication group has no backlog. When I rund the diag report
from the MMC is does now say "there is no backlog" or "zero files in backlog"
etc. It just does not report anything about a backlog. How do I know that this
means there are no backlogged files?
--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.