Domain Controller Journal Wrap

I did read a few articles that mentioned what to do if you only had one dc however those articles gave mixed reviews one said use the journal reg key fix to correct it or use the d4 and someone else said use d2 but with another dc on hand but you can use d2 if you only have one dc.

Domain controller journal wrap. One or more domain controllers have reported an frs journal wrap condition. Watch a customer engineer explaining the issue. Enable journal wrap automatic restore please help.

What caused the journal wrap. Vss is not there in windows 2000 server. The journal wrap error is only fixed after the domain controller receives the new sysvol replica from a peer domain controller.

Windows 2000 domain controllers and servers use frs to replicate system policy and logon scripts for windows 2000 and for earlier clients that are located in the system volume sysvol. 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. This means that the frs service is no longer able to replicate changes between domain controllers.

If you increase the usn journal size and therefore you increase the number of changes that the journal can hold before the journal wraps this reduces the possibility that the usn journal wrap will occur. First you have to ask yourself what caused this error on my dc. Frs is a service that must always be running on windows domain controllers and members of frs replicated dfs sets.

Also i noticed that i do not have the below listed value in 2000 server registry. This is caused when the sysvol gets currupted and is simple to fix. Solved ntfrs journal wrap errors detected on domain controller sep 9 2011.

Frs can also replicate content between windows 2000 servers that host the same fault tolerant distributed file system dfs roots or child node replicas. I am getting this event 13568 in 2000 server. The usual culprit can be a number of things.