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

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