🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 May 2026
Affected versions: Windows Server 2016

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Table of contents
  1. Symptom & Impact
  2. Environment & Reproduction
  3. Root Cause Analysis
  4. Quick Triage
  5. Step-by-Step Diagnosis
  6. Solution – Primary Fix
  7. Solution – Alternative Approaches
  8. Verification & Acceptance Criteria
  9. Rollback Plan
  10. Prevention & Hardening
  11. Related Errors & Cross-Refs
  12. References & Further Reading

Symptom & Impact

Replication remains suspended after reboot, leaving DR target stale.

Environment & Reproduction

Appears after unplanned destination restart during heavy write activity.

Get-SRPartnership
Get-SRGroup

Root Cause Analysis

Replication service startup ordering or stale metadata prevents automatic resume handshake.

Quick Triage

Check SR service state and partnership status on both ends.

Get-Service storagereservice
Get-SRPartnership | fl *

Step-by-Step Diagnosis

Review Storage Replica admin log for resume and connection negotiation failures.

Get-WinEvent -LogName Microsoft-Windows-StorageReplica/Admin -MaxEvents 200
Illustrative mockup for windows-server-2012-r2 — terminal_or_powershell
Partnership resume and state validation — Illustrative mockup — Progressive Robot

Solution – Primary Fix

Resume partnership explicitly and verify data/log volume health.

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Resume-SRPartnership -SourceComputerName  -DestinationComputerName  -Name
Illustrative mockup for windows-server-2012-r2 — event_or_log_viewer
Replication resume confirmation events — Illustrative mockup — Progressive Robot

Solution – Alternative Approaches

Remove and recreate partnership metadata if resume command consistently fails.

Verification & Acceptance Criteria

Replication status changes to ContinuouslyReplicating and queue declines.

Rollback Plan

Keep source authoritative and suspend planned failover operations until partnership is re-established.

Prevention & Hardening

Sequence service startup dependencies and add post-reboot SR health checks.

May align with destination log corruption alerts and transient SMB connectivity drops.

Related tutorial: View the step-by-step tutorial for Windows Server 2016.

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References & Further Reading

Microsoft Learn: managing and resuming Storage Replica partnerships.

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