I have had a server that despite not logging anything obvious like USN rollback has been acting strange - kept replicating back to other servers overwriting changes that had been made on them and such. Decided easiest thing is a quick D2 restore on the problem server.
After performing this though it initially sat there, created 2 files in the Netlogon (of the fair few that it should) and then appeared to just stop. No Policies being created, just the scripts with the 2 files and stalled for at least 30 mins.
As a test I copied and pasted the entire SYSVOL contents from it's partner DC to it in about 2 minutes... So I can't make any sense of this delay.
As another test I stopped the FRS, manually populated the scripts and policies folders and started it, leaving another 30 minutes with no change.
So now again I have cleared the folders, reput in Non-Authoritive restore mode and restarted FRS and exact same result of 2 files created and nothing further...
How can I find out a status or such of the copy process? I cannot see any open files or connections on the source DC from the restoring one.
Anything further I can do to simply find out what is going wrong? Another log I am missing or something? I have checked and been watching FRS logs during the process and nothing out of the ordinary here. Both servers are 2008 R2.