DFS and Disk Quotas

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2010-03-11 11:01:21 UTC

Just in case you haven't got this resolved yet, or if other people are having the same problem:

Do you have size quotas set at all on any replicated folders?

Every time I run into problems with DFS it is because of quotas.

We have students at site A and site B, their home folders are replicated between the servers, but the quotas are disk specific. If the student fills up their quota on one server it will almost always fill it on the other server too, run into all sorts of problems.

So when I'm getting these errors every 5 minutes, it is because the connection is actually timing out between the two servers because it is trying so hard to replicate (but it can't because there isn't enough free disk space for the files because of quotas).

MK A wrote:

Event 5014 and 5004 every 5 minutes
15-Jul-09

This has not fixed the issue for me - any other suggestions

Regards

K

Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:51 AM
Tom Snyder (Xantrion.com wrote:

Event 5014 and 5004 every 5 minutes
We have three servers replicating, 2 finished initial replication and one is
in progress but appears stalled - ie count of moved files is not increasing.
On all servers we are getting repeated incidents of event 5014 and 5004 every
5 minutes. The events have always been present but I got two servers to line
out with them there - still I am concerend they may offer some clue to my
current issue. The servers are connected via a Sonicwall VPN cloud, all are
in different cities. Ping between the servers never times out, its
continuous. The server which will not complete is W2008 and I can see in the
network monitor that the DFSR service is using 1 Mbps on a continuous basis

Thoughts

Errors below

Tom Snyde

Log Name: DFS Replicatio
Source: DFS
Date: 5/11/2008 9:12:07 A
Event ID: 501
Task Category: Non
Level: Warnin
Keywords: Classi
User: N/
Computer: XAN-DEN-DC01.xantrion-hq.loca
Description
The DFS Replication service is stopping communication with partner XFILE1
for replication group Xantrion-hq\Data due to an error. The service will
retry the connection periodically.

Additional Information:
Error: 1726 (The remote procedure call failed.)
Connection ID: 145C626A-697A-4EB8-9534-484C3D5AD9DB
Replication Group ID: 98DDDF02-2841-41D9-9440-FC48690D7DB
Event Xml
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
<System
<Provider Name="DFSR" /
<EventID Qualifiers="32768">5014</EventID
<Level>3</Level
<Task>0</Task
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-05-11T15:12:07.000Z" /
<EventRecordID>1759</EventRecordID
<Channel>DFS Replication</Channel
<Computer>XAN-DEN-DC01.xantrion-hq.local</Computer
<Security /
</System
<EventData
<Data>145C626A-697A-4EB8-9534-484C3D5AD9DB</Data
<Data>XFILE1</Data
<Data>Xantrion-hq\Data</Data
<Data>1726</Data
<Data>The remote procedure call failed.</Data
<Data>98DDDF02-2841-41D9-9440-FC48690D7DB6</Data
</EventData
</Event

-------------

Log Name: DFS Replicatio
Source: DFS
Date: 5/11/2008 9:12:11 A
Event ID: 500
Task Category: Non
Level: Informatio
Keywords: Classi
User: N/
Computer: XAN-DEN-DC01.xantrion-hq.loca
Description
The DFS Replication service successfully established an inbound connection
with partner XFILE1 for replication group Xantrion-hq\Data.

Additional Information:
Connection Address Used: xfile1.xantrion-hq.local
Connection ID: 145C626A-697A-4EB8-9534-484C3D5AD9DB
Replication Group ID: 98DDDF02-2841-41D9-9440-FC48690D7DB
Event Xml
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
<System
<Provider Name="DFSR" /
<EventID Qualifiers="16384">5004</EventID
<Level>4</Level
<Task>0</Task
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-05-11T15:12:11.000Z" /
<EventRecordID>1761</EventRecordID
<Channel>DFS Replication</Channel>
<Computer>XAN-DEN-DC01.xantrion-hq.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>145C626A-697A-4EB8-9534-484C3D5AD9DB</Data>
<Data>XFILE1</Data>
<Data>Xantrion-hq\Data</Data>
<Data>xfile1.xantrion-hq.local</Data>
<Data>98DDDF02-2841-41D9-9440-FC48690D7DB6</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

On Monday, November 10, 2008 3:35 PM
Michael Benadiba wrote:

DFS Replication Event ID 5014 and Event ID 5004 Repeats every 5 mins in Event Log
Hi
I've got these events repeating over and over again in our event log, connected by a SonicWALL Site to Site VPN cloud as well.

Some of the smaller folders replicate, but the larger folders with 70GB or so and several thousand files are having trouble completing replication.

One thing I did was increased the staging quota for each replicated folder to 16GB on the Branch (Source) Server. This helped a little bit but after 60 days initial replication has still not completed.

Wondering if anybody else knows what could be wrong?

Michael Benadiba
MBC Computer Solutions Ltd.
http://www.mbccs.com

On Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:59 PM
ProADGu wrote:

I am assuming that you are using Win2k3 R2 SP2Make sure you apply below
I am assuming that you are using Win2k3 R2 SP2

Make sure you apply below mentioned fixes on all DFSR servers:
1).
948496 An update to turn off default SNP features is available for Windows
Server 2003-based and Small Business Server 2003-based computers
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;948496

2). Latest DFSR.exe binaries (article title may not be your problem), you
may need to call MS PSS to get this:
948833 Distributed File System Replication may not replicate a folder on a
Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer if the folder was previously a member
of a replication group that was removed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;948833

3). I would like you to look at:
Top 10 Common Causes of Slow Replication with DFSR:
http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2007/10/05/top-10-common-causes-of-slow-replication-with-dfsr.aspx

Warm Regards,
ProADGuy

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"Michael Benadiba" wrote:

On Friday, January 02, 2009 3:13 PM
RAND wrote:

Hi I was getting the same problem on the replication partner, but the primar
Hi

I was getting the same problem on the replication partner, but the primar
member was OK. It turned out the the Switch port connecting the partner was
set to 100 Half and the partner server was set to 100 full.

Try hard setting the server NIC seed to a set speed of the switch

"ProADGuy" wrote:

On Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:03 AM
MK A wrote:

Event 5014 and 5004 every 5 minutes
This has not fixed the issue for me - any other suggestions?

Regards,

K

On Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:59 AM
James Nimmo wrote:

DFS and Disk Quotas
Just in case you haven't got this resolved yet, or if other people are having the same problem:

Do you have size quotas set at all on any replicated folders?

Every time I run into problems with DFS it is because of quotas.

We have students at site A and site B, their home folders are replicated between the servers, but the quotas are disk specific. If the student fills up their quota on one server it will almost always fill it on the other server too, run into all sorts of problems.

So when I'm getting these errors every 5 minutes, it is because the connection is actually timing out between the two servers because it is trying so hard to replicate (but it can't because there isn't enough free disk space for the files because of quotas).

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