I have a 2012 Host, running a single 2012 Guest.  Guest is running as a DC with AD, DNS, DHCP, and File Services.  DFSR is running, and it gives a warning every time my back runs (Backup is running on Host).  Warning is The DFS Replication service stopped replication on volume F:......and long message about Database, yada yada yada.  

Do I need to run DFSR?  Again, single server, no file replication to different offices.  I'm not finding a clear answer to that question.

Second, Server Manager should, according to TechNet, have under the Tools option the ability to turn off DFSR.  I cannot find that option.  So, IF I can turn it off, can I simply disable the DFS Namespace and DFS Replication services?  

I would prefer eliminating rather than ignoring warnings.

Thanks

Hi,

DFSR is also needed in AD replication so it should not be disabled.

However generally we will not have AD database on Drive F - you may need to check if there is anything specific on Drive F. You can also provide the error message with error code so we can help find out a possible cause.