We have three 2008 R2 servers setup for DFS replication . "HQSERVER1" and "HQSERVER2" is located at our HQ, and "BOSERVER1" is located at a branch office.
1 month ago we had replication problems between HQSERVER1 and BOSERVER1 and due to this we decided to move and rebuild the DFS share from HQSERVER1 to HQSERVER2.
We took a backup of the share from HQSERVER1 and restored it to HQSERVER2. And then recreated the DFS-names and targets.
All seemed to be OK until we some Days ago received a case from a user at the branch office, he was missing some files (he didn’t know how much)
I believe his files was stored on BOSERVER1 because he was always working with the files in the branch office.
I checked for the files on all 3 servers, I also checked the D:\System Volume Information\DFSR\Private\{GUID} on all 3 servers without luck.
My guess is DFS cleaned the D:\System Volume Information\DFSR\Private\{GUID} at the branch office when I removed the DFS share. And due to this all files that was not replicated yet was deleted?
We are creating backups on the replicated files on HQSERVER but not locally at the branch office.
Is there any way to find back the files?