How to Check DFS replication state

• Last updated: Dec 30, 2020

Intro

• OS : Windows 2012R2, 2016, 2019

From Windows server, it's not that simple to check DFS replication state. I don't think we can see it from a graphical window. So after some researches I found that we can have some informations from the command line.

dfsrdiag command

Options

• /SMem : The DNS name of the sender.
• /RMem : The DNS name of the receiver.
• /RGName : Replication group name.
• /RFName : Replication folder name.

Graphical representation

• To make it clearer, the correspondence between the dfs manager and the options :

Examples

• Know number of files to replicate from SRV01 to SRV02

 C:\Users\Administrator> dfsrdiag backlog /SMem:SRV01 /RGName:Rep_Folder /RFName:share /RMem:SRV02

• Print current updates for a specific server :

 C:\Users\Administrator> dfsrdiag replicationstate /Mem:srv01

• Print current updates for all servers :

 C:\Users\Administrator> dfsrdiag replicationstate /all