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Sam Thorpe

Journal Wrap error discovered during FRS to DFS migration on new domain controller

After raising the existing domain and forest functional levels to 2016 from 2003 I received the attached error while configuring the new domain controller (CCCIAD). The old domain controller (CCCIserver) was running FRS and had not been upgraded  to DFS.

I started the FRS to DFS upgrade but first checked for journal wrap on the old (CCCIserver) and found journal wrap errors going back to last year. Error below:

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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.

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I applied the procedure "Setting the "Enable Journal Wrap Automatic Restore" registry parameter to 1" shown above at 2:58 pm EDT. Last activity in event viewer was at 3:19 PM  EDT shown below. Nothing since then .

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File Replication Service is scanning the data in the system volume. Computer CCCISERVER cannot become a domain controller until this process is complete. The system volume will then be shared as SYSVOL. 
To check for the SYSVOL share, at the command prompt, type: 
net share 
When File Replication Service completes the scanning process, the SYSVOL share will appear. 
The initialization of the system volume can take some time. The time is dependent on the amount of data in the system volume.

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Time now is 425 pm EDT and no  change. Sysvol share still not showing up in "net share" results.

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asked10/05/2024 20:34
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Sam Thorpe

I have considered running the Nonauthoritative restore procedure shown in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/use-burflags-to-reinitialize-frs but I am not sure if I should just continue to wait on results from my first attempt using the "System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters"   "Enable Journal Wrap Automatic Restore" procedure I did at 3:00 pm.

 

o perform a nonauthoritative restore, stop the FRS service, configure the BurFlags registry key, and then restart the FRS service. Follow these steps:

  1. Select Start, and then select Run.

  2. In the Open box, type cmd and then press ENTER.

  3. In the Command box, type net stop ntfrs.

  4. Select Start, and then select Run.

  5. In the Open box, type regedit and then press ENTER.

  6. Locate the following subkey in the registry:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore\Process at Startup

  7. In the right pane, double-click BurFlags.

  8. In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, type D2 and then select OK.

  9. Quit Registry Editor, and then switch to the Command box.

  10. In the Command box, type net start ntfrs.

  11. Quit the Command box.

Sam Thorpe

I rebooted the old server (CCCIserver) about 4:52 pm. Restarted normally. 

Still nothing in "Net Share" results for SYSVOL but Event ID 13566 (screen shot uploaded)  shows:

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File Replication Service is scanning the data in the system volume. Computer CCCISERVER cannot become a domain controller until this process is complete. The system volume will then be shared as SYSVOL. 
 To check for the SYSVOL share, at the command prompt, type: 
net share 
 When File Replication Service completes the scanning process, the SYSVOL share will appear. 
 The initialization of the system volume can take some time.
The time is dependent on the amount of data in the system volume.

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Should I just wait it out?

If so how long would you wait?

Thanks!

 

 

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replied 10/05/2024 21:10
Sam Thorpe

I have a shadow copy backup of the SYVOL folder on the CCCIserver domain controller from 6:00 am this morning befor I started. I should also have a BackupAssist backup of it froom last night as well. 

Not sure what to do at this point. Customers office opens at 8:00 am Monday EDT. I have LogMein and Dell IDRAC access to the servers.


replied 10/05/2024 22:22
Mariette Knap

Sam, I will contact you later on Sunday to fix this issue.


replied 10/05/2024 22:45
Sam Thorpe

Thanks Mariette!

 


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