File replication service error message - what's it mean?

[Guest Tom]

Win2K3 SBS SP2 + all MS updates (single server in the domain)

RAID 1 250 GB primary SATA drives

2 - 300GB USB external drives

Exchange Server 2003 SP2+ on drive C

SQL 2005 SP2 (lightly used) on drive C also. SQL DBs not on drive C but are

off the internal SATA RAID drives - on one of the USB drives.

 

Chkdsk on all volumes (chkdsk not chkdsk /f or chkdsk /r) comes back fine

after receiving this message in the File Replication Event Log. Note: we

have a 750GB RAID 1 MaxtorOne external drive attached to the system and

removed it due to NTFS file corruption issues. We then rebooted the Win2K3

SBS server and received this error.]

Is this a critical error or what?

What's the possible cause?

What drive is the error on?

 

 

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.

 

If the value name is not present you may add it with the New->DWORD Value

function under the Edit Menu item. Type the value name exactly as shown above.