hiya,

What product are you using that you think is deleting the reparse points?

I have a feeling that DFS is deleting the files.

As these files don't exsit on the other DFS servers. This was working fine for ages and now it only just started deleting the files.

Enterprise Vault FSA..

So this isn't something like storage expiry and orphaned placeholder cleanup?

Do the items still exist in archive explorer?

Files containing reparsepoints should be replicated, but as a useless stub file as the reparsepoint will not be carried over, which is why they are not supported: see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc77323...

from the article:

The following file attribute values also trigger replication, although they cannot be set by using the SetFileAttributes function (use the GetFileAttributes function to view the attribute values).

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT
 

Regards,

Jeff

I can still see the files in the archive explorer.

Also from what I can see the policy retention is set for forever and I don't have delete orphaned shortcuts setup.

Cheers,

Brett

Then you are going to have to use some sort of monitoring tool, such as processmonitor to filter on file deletes to figure out what is stripping placeholders (it might not have anything to do with EV, so a dtrace would be fairly useless)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb...

Make sure you choose your filters carefully since this can log a LOT of information.

Additionally you might be interested in using FSAUtility, which is detailed in the utilities guide, and can recreate missing placeholders.Not sure which version you are on, so here is the documentation master link. Click through to the version you are on, and look for 'utilities guide'

http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC2200

or just see

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO37834 which talks about the option and assumes you know the tool

Regards,

Jeff

OK I restore a placeholder using the FSAUtily and monitored the file for 2 days use procmon and looks like that DFSRs.exe has deleted/moved to D:\System Volume Information\DFSR\Private\

any ideas?

Cheers,

Brett

Also I've had a look through the DFS log files and looks like the remote verison is dominating the local verison which I don't get because the placeholder doesn't exist on the remote server..