I haven't done the DFS thing so the only thing I can chime in about with SyncToy is that it requires twice the space of whatever you're syncing up with. We have part of our users using it and the other part using good ol' fashioned Briefcase replication. Briefcase only updates what has changed and seems to overwrite files. Synctoy looks like it copies the file and then deletes the older version afterward. In cases of GB personal folders and people pushing the limits of quota - it sometimes causes problems particularly if they interrupt the process mid-stream. That's what I've seen. -Paul
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 4:16 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: [NTSysADM] Weird problem with DFS Server 2012R2 file server. 2008R2 DFL/FFL Home directories served out by DFS in the form of \\example.com\people\%username% I got an alert this morning that the C: drive on this machine was only 7% free. I poked around (with windirstat), and found that two users had massive amounts of data stashed in the c:\DFSRoots\US directory. One was in people\%username%\, the other was in %user%\ - more than 35gb each The one thing they have in common is that they're backing up data to their home drive. One uses a script using robocopy, the other uses synctoy. The data resides in both spots on the file server - their home directory and on user partition. I can delete the errant data from the C: drive without disturbing the data on the user partition. I've done some SFTW, but I'm not finding anything that looks like my problems. Anyone have an idea what's happening here, and how to correct it? Kurt
