Show or hide replication information for a list of targets

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

To show or hide replication information for a list of targets

Open Distributed File System.
Click the DFS link for which you want to display or hide replication information.
On the Action menu, click Show Replication Information (if the "File Replication" column is currently hidden and you want to display it) or Hide Replication Information (if the "File Replication" column is currently visible and you want to hide it).

Caution

Do not create File Replication service (FRS) replica sets on a volume that is managed by Remote Storage. Otherwise you might severely impact system performance and possibly cause data loss within your media library.

FRS might need to periodically read every file in the replica set to send the file contents to another computer. This causes FRS to recall all files that Remote Storage has sent to secondary storage, which might take a long time (hours or days). If you use tape for your secondary storage, remember FRS recalls files in directory order rather than media order, so the excessive number of tape seeks performed by FRS will likely ruin the tapes and cause data loss.

Notes

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority. If the computer is joined to a domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this procedure. As a security best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure.
To open DFS, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Distributed File System.
Automatic file replication through the File Replication service is only available with domain DFS.
The "File Replication" column shows whether each individual target participates in replication.

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