Sysvol not replicating to second DC

[CHR1S]

Currently restoring all missing GPO Policies from backup... 3 so far, grrr

[CHR1S]

Yes exactly as I thought, the check and fix procedure restored it to an older state, I restored it from a backup and there seem to be no more errors "touch wood"!

Thanks again all

[ccp]

Hi Chris,

Just out of interest (I know you have solved this now so just a question out of curiosity)
Are both Servers in the same site and are they located in the same location?

[CHR1S]

Yes and yes

[Bruce123]

Currently restoring all missing GPO Policies from backup... 3 so far, grrr

Glad you got it sorted, in my experience FRS can be hard to fix when replication stops working on 2000/2003. They are easier to fix in 2008/2008 R2.

Can I ask how you recovered GPOs without restoring the whole of ADS? I know that you can backup GPOs with a right-click in Group Policy Management Console, but can this be automated? Or can you recover individual GPOs from the System State backup taken from a DC?

Regards,

Bruce.

[chazzy2501]

I would have done a file level restore and looked for the guid strings of the GPOs and plonked them back into the sysvol. I assume that would work? OR I would have found the GPOs in group policy management and removed them from there (if they were unimportant. Would my approach work?