DFSR - This member is waiting for initial replication for replicated folder

[hashssj]

Hi Team,

I am experiencing
issues with Server 2008 DFSR, in which there is a large backlog of sending
transactions on one replication target, and running the health report shows
Status "Waiting for initial replication" on both replication servers.<o:p></o:p>

I have
reviewed posts containing similar title but none seem to be pointing me in the
right direction, apart from delegating and re-creating.<o:p></o:p>

Unfortunately
I am new to DFSR and did not initially setup this replication, initially we had
a backlog of 1913 items and I tried to resolve using information from this post
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/380d6685-5404-46ff-82a6-3bce6f1ff337
and have now made it worse as items have now increased to 2002347 items.<o:p></o:p>

This is a bidirectional
replication, and I tired setting our main server as the primary target using
the Dfsradmin Membership Set command which appears to be applied but then seems
to be changed back to false.