Windows Server 2003 File Replication Service Journal Error

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Single Windows Server 2003 DC. SP2

 

- No other DC's ever in enviornment of any version.

- No good or backup copies available.

 

- The SYSVOL is available and has data in it. The GPO's show up and

the scripts are there, it just gives this error in the event log.

 

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Event ID 13568

 

I would like to run the process listed below to fix the problem, but

since there are no other DC's in the network with a good copy of the

SYSVOL, I am concerned this process will delete the existing copy

during the repair process.

 

Can someone please advise a solution?

 

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:\winnt\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.