When using DFS replication there may be times where a backlog of files has built up, usually caused by a member being offline for an extended period of time. To see how many files are backlogged, and a listing of the latest 100 files in the queue you can use the dfsrdiag command line utility. This utility should be run from one of the replication members.
If I had two servers, StayPuffed and DontCrossTheStreams and these servers had a replication group named KeyMaster and a folder named Gatekeeper. If StayPuffed was offline for two days and once brought back up I wanted to check the backlog I would issue the following.
dfsrdiag backlog /rgname:KeyMaster /rfname:Gatekeeper /sendingmember:DontCrossTheStreams /receivingmember:StayPuffed
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