System Volume Information DFSR Files

Question

_{Friday, July 30, 2010 12:24 PM}

Hello,

I am running Windows server 2008, and have DFSR set up. I am concerned about disk space. (9% free).

I have disk capacity of 272gb, my system volume information\DFsr takes up 76.39GB in the private folder.  I don't know why, and want to know if it is possible to reduce/delete this?

Thanks

Amanda

All replies (9)

_{Tuesday, August 3, 2010 12:28 PM}

Hi Amanda,

The following article explains DfsrPrivate folder in detail, please read through this article and then decide if you need to delete file in this folder:

Staging folders and Conflict and Deleted folders
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782648(WS.10).aspx

Thanks.

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_{Friday, September 3, 2010 10:44 AM}

Hi Mervyn,

I have the DfsrPrivate folders in each of my replicated folders and understand these are related to the files being replicated, what I am unsure of is why in my system information folder there is also a DFSR folder which contains (now) 113gb of data, in a folder called private.

Thanks Amanda

_{Friday, September 3, 2010 12:55 PM}

Hello,

I think I have may have the answer, it looks like the dfsr in each replication folder is a junction point set up to the dfsr private folder in the system volume information folder. 

I have seen (from Ned) a way to clean these up, however as I only have a simple set up I have not got a namespace set up, just some replicated folders.  Is there a way I can manually clean up the conflict and deleted folders without a namespace set up?

Thanks Amanda

_{Friday, September 3, 2010 2:12 PM}

Hello,

I have realised if I just adjust the quotas this happens automatically.

Thanks

_{Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:05 AM}

Hello,

 

I have realised if I just adjust the quotas this happens automatically.

 

Thanks

Hi Amanda, 

I nearly have the same problem. Can you tell me how to shrink SYSVOL\DFSR\Private\ I notice that files in PreExisting folder are very large and all of them are old files. But I dare not to delete them manually. 

Cheers

Regards

_{Thursday, December 1, 2016 4:22 PM}

I realize this is an old post, but came across this searching for another problem. and since this was never answered I thought I would put in my 2 cents.

The DFSr preexisting files are files that existed before the dfsr (replication) pair was setup. When you configure the replication you choose a source and destination. DFSR (nicely) puts any files that already existed in the target into this preexisting folder instead of just deleting them.

So, these are files that having been touched since you created the dfs replication and you can probably delete them. That said, backups are always important.

_{Wednesday, June 21, 2017 4:05 AM | 1 vote}

1.  Open a CMD prompt as an administrator on the DFSR server.
2.  Get the GUID of the Replicated Folder you want to clean:

WMIC.EXE /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderconfig get replicatedfolderguid,replicatedfoldername

3.  Then call the CleanupConflictDirectory method:

WMIC.EXE /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderinfo where “replicatedfolderguid='<RF GUID>'” call cleanupconflictdirectory

_{Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:51 AM}

1.  Open a CMD prompt as an administrator on the DFSR server.
2.  Get the GUID of the Replicated Folder you want to clean:

WMIC.EXE /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderconfig get replicatedfolderguid,replicatedfoldername

3.  Then call the CleanupConflictDirectory method:

WMIC.EXE /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderinfo where “replicatedfolderguid='<RF GUID>'” call cleanupconflictdirectory

WMIC.EXE /namespace:\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderinfo where “replicatedfolderguid='ED1D6E92-5DF5-4D50-80C3-861E56573FC4'” call cleanupconflictdirectory

ERROR:
Description = Invalid query

_{Friday, May 25, 2018 1:33 AM}

Got it need to run without quotes.