First time poster, long time lurker, but will appreciate some help here.
One of our servers that was in a DFSR replication group just experienced a ungraceful shutdown and our primary objective here is to get the DFSR replication going between the two members of the replication group.
The caveat is that the servers were in middle of an initial sync when the authoritative member crashed.
Server A which crashed holds the most recent copy of data, so in an effort to have all this data replicated back to Server B and make sure that it (server A) is the "authoritative" copy, we are planning on disabling Server B in this replication group, resume replication on server A and let it check the DFSR database for consistency and re-initialize if necessary. Since there are no other active members in the replication group, our hope is that Server A will instantly finish it's initialization because it automatically became the authoritative member. Once that finishes, re-enable server B in the replication group.
This is DFSR running on Windows 2012 on both members.
Do you see any issues with following these steps? Is this how you would recover DFS from a dirty shutdown?
I realize this is a bit complex, do let me know if you need any clarification.
Thanks in advance for your help.